Calle de la Abadesa

An abbess ruled within her convent’s walls with almost seigneurial authority: she managed the community’s goods and answered only to the bishop or to Rome. It is to that superior that the name of this street points, opened around 1929, when Valdeacederas still belonged to Chamartín de la Rosa. Local tradition ties it to the abbess of a convent that once stood in these parts, of which no firm record survives. The street is short and oddly laid out: at one point la calle del Robledo changes name and becomes la calle de la Abadesa, only to end soon after at la calle de Miosotis. Around it, the neighbourhood’s streets bear the names of lilies, mint and agaves, an inheritance of former orchard and pasture land.