Calle de la Batalla del Salado

The name brings an Andalusian battlefield to Arganzuela. On October 30, 1340, beside the Salado stream and below the walls of Tarifa, the troops of Alfonso XI of Castile, with Portuguese support, defeated the army of Abu al-Hasan, the Marinid sultan, reinforced by the forces of the kingdom of Granada. The clash closed the last serious attempt at a Muslim invasion through the Strait, and its echo reached Rome: Alfonso XI sent the pope part of the spoils and twenty-four prisoners bearing the captured banners. The street belongs to the Ensanche Sur, between paseo de Santa María de la Cabeza and calle de Embajadores, and crosses the Palos de Moguer and Delicias neighborhoods, where the streets gathered several echoes of the Reconquest.