Calle de Consuegra

The name travels from the plains of La Mancha to this corner of Chamartín. The Castilla neighborhood tends to name its streets after towns of the Spanish interior, so Consuegra lines up here with other streets of Castilian resonance. The Toledo town that lends its name is recognizable from afar by a row of white windmills on the Calderico hill, which many associate with the giants Don Quixote charges at. At their foot stands a castle of Muslim origin, later held by the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem. Consuegra also keeps a tiny, costly crop, saffron, which each autumn dyes its fields purple and gives rise to the Saffron Rose Festival.