Calle de Jesús Maestro

Before there was a street there was a school. The Jesús Maestro school, run by the Teresian nuns of Enrique de Ossó, opened its classrooms for girls here and was the first building on the stretch taking shape between avenida de Filipinas and calle de Juan Vigón, in Vallehermoso. When the street registry needed a name for the road, it took the sign already in plain sight. The name looks further back: “Maestro” (Teacher) was one of the titles with which disciples and crowds addressed Jesus in the Gospels, a translation of the Hebrew “Rabbi.” The street is short, barely two hundred meters, and is marked by a weighty neighbor: the Official School of Languages, at number 5, where several generations of Madrileños have prepared their exams.