Calle de Francisca Calonge
It recalls Francisca Calonge, owner of the land the street was traced over, named in 1941.
The calle de Francisca Calonge was named in 1941 and honours the owner of the land the street was opened over. It is the pattern of so many roads in northern Madrid: when the layout was set out over former private plots, the register fixed the name of whoever had owned the ground.
Of the woman, barely that recorded role remains. No biography, trade or dates survive: Francisca Calonge entered the register through the ownership of some land, not through any public career. It is the same silence that surrounds other owners' names the northern expansion kept almost by administrative inertia.
The setting fits that origin. Valdeacederas grew in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries over former farmland parcelled out by private initiative. Its little more than a hundred metres belong to that fabric of short, humble streets, raised through the dividing up of land.