Calle de Enrique I

The name evokes Henry I of Castile, who took the crown in 1214 at just ten years old and lost it in 1217, before reaching adolescence. With his mother dead, the regency fell to his elder sister, Berengaria, while the nobility fought over the kingdom. The end came by chance. In the spring of 1217, Henry was playing with other children in the palace of the bishop of Palencia when a roof tile fell from a tower and struck his head; he died a few days later. He rests in the monastery of Las Huelgas, in Burgos. The street belongs to the Bellas Vistas neighbourhood, at the far southwest of Tetuán, beside the old road to France, today Bravo Murillo. It measures barely sixty metres: a king who reigned three years on a street you can walk in a minute.