Calle de Estévez
A short street in the colonia de El Viso that bears the surname Estévez, though no record survives of the person it honors.
Barely 130 meters are enough for the calle de Estévez to cross one of the quietest corners of El Viso, the colony that Rafael Bergamín built between 1933 and 1936 on the heights of the old Castellana racecourse. Many of its streets took the names of rivers: the Nervión, the Tormes, and the Turia run today turned into sidewalks. Among that river map, one surname breaks the pattern.
Estévez is one of the most widespread surnames of the northwest of the peninsula, derived from the medieval patronymic meaning “son of Esteban.” The street commemorates someone who bore it, but no reliable record survives of who he was.