Calle de Concepción Bahamonde
The street takes its name from María de la Concepción Rodríguez de Bahamonde y Sarriá (8th Marchioness of Zafra, 1924-1952), of the family that owned land in Fuente del Berro during the eastward expansion of the Ensanche. The neighbouring streets —calle Diego Bahamonde and Paseo del Marqués de Zafra— share the same lineage, pointing to a coordinated naming across the family’s estates.
The calle de Concepción Bahamonde, in the Fuente del Berro neighbourhood, is named after the woman who was 8th Marchioness of Zafra and 4th Viscountess of Matamala. María de la Concepción Rodríguez de Bahamonde y Sarriá held both titles between 1924 and 1952 and died without children.
Behind the name lies a story of land. The Rodríguez de Bahamonde family gradually amassed estates across this stretch of the eastern outskirts as the Ensanche ate its way into the countryside. The streets opened on those plots ended up named after the family’s surnames and titles: a few steps away survive the calle de Diego Bahamonde and the paseo del Marqués de Zafra, branches of the same tree.
No archive preserves the council resolution that set the name or the year the plaque went up, a silence that fits its status as a minor street born late, almost on tiptoe, on the city’s map.