Calle de la Costa Verde

The Costa Verde is the coastal strip of Asturias, some three hundred and forty kilometers of cliffs, beaches and estuaries between meadows that stay green all year. From that green reaching down to the sand itself came the label, a tourist brand already in use in the 1960s before it was entered in the register of geo-tourism names in 1969. The choice was no accident. Almenara arranged much of its street map around the north of Spain, and through its center runs the Avenida de Asturias, which orders the neighborhood and turns it toward the Principality. Around it gather streets recalling the districts of that geography, so that a walk through the area works almost like a folded map of the Cantabrian coast. The Calle de la Costa Verde is a short residential stretch of blocks raised as Tetuán expanded northward. Whoever walks it will see no cliffs or gulpiyuris, those inland beaches that fill with sea through hidden caves; they will see modest facades and quiet doorways.