Calle de Frigiliana
Takes its name from Frigiliana, a Morisco village in the Axarquía region of Málaga, within a cluster of Legazpi streets named after towns on the Costa del Sol.
The name travels from the Axarquía mountains, in Málaga, to this corner of Legazpi. Frigiliana is a village perched between sea and mountain, with white houses and steep alleys and one of the best-preserved Morisco-Mudéjar old towns in Andalusia. Madrid placed it here as part of a group of streets devoted to the Costa del Sol: calle de Nerja runs a few steps away.
Where the village’s own name comes from is a riddle centuries old. It has been traced to a Roman named Frexinius, to Latin formulas, or to the Arabic Brig Ayna, “cheerful spring,” for the water that fell from the castle. No reading has gone beyond guesswork, and the sign names a white village overlooking the Mediterranean and a place-name still undeciphered.