Calle de Gonzalo Herrero

The calle de Gonzalo Herrero is a short street in Valdeacederas dedicated to a man of whom no documented trace remains. No reliable source explains who he was or what merit earned him the dedication. The neighbourhood does have a known origin: the place name Valdeacederas comes from val de acederas, the valley of sorrel, a sour herb that grew wild in those farmed lands. Gonzalo Herrero may have been one of the owners who opened streets across their own land, a common custom in the northern outskirts, but nothing confirms it. All that remains is the plaque, the nearly two hundred metres of asphalt and a surname with no history attached.