Calle de Jemenuño

Jemenuño is a tiny village in the western part of the province of Segovia, about thirty kilometers from the capital, deep in the Segovian countryside beside the Cercos stream. Today it gathers only a few dozen residents; it was an independent municipality until it was absorbed into Santa María la Real de Nieva. From that corner of pasture and grain this street in the Imperial neighborhood borrowed its name. The choice was no accident. Much of this part of Arganzuela honors Castilian towns, and Jemenuño joined the list of Segovian villages on the map. The village is already recorded in the eighteenth century as Gemenuño, before the modern spelling. What the place-name means exactly is not reliably documented, and it is best not to invent an explanation: the ending in -uño links it to other Castilian names, though its origin remains unclear.