Calle de González Sola

Whoever walks along González Sola covers a short stretch of Almenara, barely a hundred meters wedged among the blocks that grew north of Cuatro Caminos. The street takes its name from a surname, González Sola, but the exact reason hasn’t survived. There is no reliable record of who that person was or what made them deserving of a street in the register. The documentary blank is not rare in this part of the city. Almenara was built up in the twentieth century as a working-class neighborhood north of Tetuán, on land that had been part of the Amaniel common, and for many of its street names no file survived to explain the dedication. Tetuán de las Victorias owes its name to the army that in 1860 camped on this land north of Madrid after the African campaign, and from that settlement grew one of the city’s most working-class corners.