Calle de las Magnolias

The street belongs to a small neighbourhood of botanically named streets in the north of Almenara. A few steps away run Margaritas, Geranios and Nardo, and among them Magnolias follows the same logic: naming the map with flowers rather than battles or generals, as happens across much of Tetuán. The magnolia that lends the name is a glossy-leaved tree with enormous flowers, white or cream, that scent the early summer. The site was once part of the old Colonia de la Ventilla, a stretch of humble housing that the twentieth century reshaped into today’s brick blocks, beside the avenida de Asturias. The name promises a garden in a neighbourhood that grew through building work.