Calle de Écija
The street takes its name from Écija, the town on the Genil in Seville province known as the frying pan of Andalusia.
The sign brings to Madrid the name of Écija, a town in Seville province set in the plain of the Genil. Its history goes back to Roman Astigi, a prosperous colony whose memory survives in the learned demonym astigitanos.
Écija offers a skyline bristling with belltowers and baroque spires that earned it the nickname of the city of towers. Its national fame, though, comes from the thermometer: hemmed into the Guadalquivir valley, where African air pours in unchecked, it records some of Spain’s most scorching summers, with readings past 46 degrees. Hence its name, the frying pan of Andalusia.