Calle de Enrique Trompeta

The name honors Enrique Trompeta, a journalist who worked in Madrid between the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. He wrote about the reality of the city’s working classes, with pieces on the employment and unemployment of laborers. Only fragments of his biography survive, and the ultimate reason his name reached the map is undocumented, a common gap among the minor streets of Arganzuela. The street is short, barely a hundred and fifty meters, and runs through the La Chopera neighborhood, near the plaza de Legazpi, the paseo de la Chopera and the old Matadero, in a district the southern expansion built to house workers.