Calle de Garellano

The name brings to Bellas Vistas an Italian river and one of the great military days of the Spanish Renaissance. In late December 1503, beside the Garellano River —⁠the Garigliano, north of Naples⁠— the troops of Ferdinand the Catholic, led by Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, the Great Captain, crossed the waters at the height of the winter flood by a crossing laid in secret and fell upon the French army. The victory drove France from the Kingdom of Naples and secured that crown for the Spanish monarchy. The street came late to this memory. It joined the register on 1 January 1902 as Conde Duque, and a year later, on 9 January 1903, it was renamed Garellano to undo the clash with another road of the same name. The stretch runs between the streets of Doctor Santero and Tenerife, in the working-class fabric of Bellas Vistas, far from the Neapolitan mud its plaque evokes.