Calle de José Calvo

The calle de José Calvo carries the name and surname of a José Calvo of whom no sure record survives. There is no second surname or date to pin down whom the sign honors, and Calvo is among the most common surnames in Spain, so the attribution stays open. What is known is the ground it sits on. Berruguete grew up in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries as a working-class fringe north of Cuatro Caminos, a tight grid of low houses that the expanding city gradually absorbed. The neighborhood recalls Alonso Berruguete, sculptor of the Castilian Renaissance. In 2022 the street made the news for more earthly reasons: its sidewalks hold a row of ghost kitchens that set residents against the city, and that April an abandoned well of the Canal de Isabel II suddenly opened in the middle of the road.