Calle de Jerez

The name comes from the south. Jerez de la Frontera, in the province of Cádiz, gives its name to this street in the Nueva España district of Chamartín, built up over the 20th century in the north of Madrid. The place name carries centuries of mixture. The form “Jerez” comes from the Arabic Sherish, and the addition “de la Frontera” recalls the line between the kingdom of Castile and the Nasrid kingdom of Granada in the final centuries of the Reconquest. From that name also came the English “sherry”, the word English merchants, fond of these wines, used for the wine of Jerez. The calle de Jerez is today a quiet, residential street of Chamartín. The Iranian embassy stands at number 5, and it runs down beside the paseo de la Habana.