Calle de Felipe Mora

The name points to a person, Felipe Mora, but no reliable record of who he was has survived. It is not documented whether he was a landowner, a developer or a neighbour the district wished to remember. The silence fits how this part of Tetuán de las Victorias grew. Around the turn of the twentieth century, the land near the old Amaniel commons was parcelled out without a plan. Each owner opened his own street, built low houses turned inward around courtyards, and many streets inherited the name of whoever divided up the ground. The Calle de Felipe Mora keeps the trace of that broken terrain: it drops as a slope between the higher Calle de Sorgo and the Calle de Alberdi, clearing the gradient with a flight of steps. A short stretch of slope and steps in a neighbourhood born climbing hills.