Calle de Coslada
The street takes its name from the town of Coslada, in the Henares Corridor some twelve kilometres east of Madrid. Its route follows the old Camino de Canillas, a rural track that crossed the market gardens of La Guindalera before the neighbourhood was built up.
Calle de Coslada inherits its name from a town in Madrid’s rural hinterland recorded in documents from 1273, when it belonged to the district of Vallecas alongside Canillas and Canillejas. For centuries Coslada was almost nothing: 264 inhabitants in 1864, living off grain and livestock, until the Madrid-Zaragoza railway opened a halt there in 1863.
The calle de Coslada was born far from that town, in La Guindalera, a settlement that filled up from the second half of the 19th century as a haphazard extension of the eastern Ensanche. The Camino de Canillas ran through the area. The name fits a collection of place-names in which Spanish towns organise the street map: nearby lie the calle de Cartagena, the calle de Béjar and the plaza del Pilar de Zaragoza.
There is a curious gap: the geographical reference leaves no doubt, but the council resolution that set the name is nowhere documented.
Its names
- Camino de Canillashasta c. 1943
- Calle de Cosladac. 1943 o anterior