Calle de Filipinas
Takes its name from the Philippine archipelago, Spanish territory until 1898, in an area of Madrid where the streets bear the names of former possessions and countries of the Hispanic sphere.
The name evokes the Southeast Asian archipelago that Spain ruled for more than three centuries, until the 1898 Treaty of Paris ceded it to the United States. The place name goes back to Philip II: the Philippine Islands were named for him while he was still crown prince.
Filipinas belongs to a layout in Nueva España where the street map preserves the Hispanic imprint, among roads named after American republics and former dominions. It is a very short street, one of those seams that link larger stretches without drawing attention, and it is enough to keep some distant islands echoing on a quiet corner of Chamartín.