Calle de la Botánica
A street in the Guindalera neighbourhood (Salamanca district, 28028) documented at least since 1881. It takes its name from the scientific discipline, possibly as part of a set of Enlightenment-minded names assigned when the neighbourhood was first parcelled out during the last third of the 19th century.
Calle de la Botánica, in the Guindalera neighbourhood, was laid out when that outlying land began to be parcelled under the Castro Plan, in the second half of the 19th century. By around 1888 the street network was settled, with names of civic figures and cities. Among them all, Calle de la Botánica is the only one bearing the name of a natural science, and no municipal record survives to explain why it was chosen.
The firmest trace of the name is tied to the neighbourhood’s first parish. On 10 June 1881 work began on the church of Nuestra Señora del Pilar, on the block closed by the streets José Picón, Pilar de Zaragoza and Botánica. The church was opened in 1883 and destroyed in 1936.