Calle de la Cueva Valiente
Takes its name from Cueva Valiente, a granite peak of the Guadarrama range between Ávila and Segovia.
The name comes down from the mountains. Cueva Valiente is the highest summit of the Sierra de Malagón, a granite ridge of the Guadarrama that nears 1,900 metres above the Segovian village of San Rafael. Calle de la Cueva Valiente takes up that name, true to Ciudad Jardín’s custom of naming its streets after mountain peaks.
The peak owes its name to a real cave: near the summit opens a hollow some fifteen metres deep that gave the mountain its nickname. These slopes of pine and granite have an old bad reputation: when the Alto del León pass toward Castile opened in the eighteenth century, they filled with bandits, and Juan Plaza, the most notorious of them, roamed here. Anyone reading the plaque in this quiet corner of Chamartín has, without knowing it, the edge of a mountain range underfoot.