Calle de Dolores Sánchez Carrascosa

Behind this full name is a woman of whom barely one thing is known: she owned the land. When in 1941 the city named this short street in the Castilla neighborhood, it did so in memory of Dolores Sánchez Carrascosa, owner of the plots through which the street was opened. It was a common practice when the north of the city was still a mosaic of private estates being carved into parcels. No record of the person has survived: no dates, no trade, no portrait, only her name and her standing as a landowner in a Chamartín that still remembered having been a separate village. Her name keeps the gesture of an old transaction: Dolores’s land turned into public asphalt.