Calle de Cobos de Segovia

The name comes from a tiny village in the west of Segovia province. Cobos de Segovia is today a minor local entity within the municipality of Sangarcía, some twenty-six kilometers from the provincial capital, with barely a few dozen inhabitants. Its church has a dome rising over the plain that, so the story goes, was built around 1587 by architects who had come from the works at El Escorial. In the Imperial neighborhood, the village lends its name to a long, quiet street beside the Paseo Imperial, in the corner where Arganzuela slopes down toward the Manzanares and the Toledo bridge. The sign carries into southern Madrid the name of a Castilian hamlet that most of those passing by will never visit.