Calle de la Santísima Trinidad

The name invokes the Holy Trinity, the central mystery of Christianity that unites the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit in a single God. It is a name of devotion, like so many that spread across Madrid when parishes and brotherhoods marked both the calendar and the street map. The street was born with the Trafalgar district, built in the Chamberí expansion around the mid-19th century. Several streets received pious names then, but the precise reason for this dedication has not survived. A coincidence tempts the passerby. The whole district is called Trafalgar after the 1805 naval battle, and the largest Spanish ship sunk that day was called precisely Santísima Trinidad. Nothing confirms that the street honors the ship rather than the doctrine. At number 37, on the corner with José Abascal, the Joaquín Sorolla school, from 1933, faces this street.