Calle de los Condes del Val

Before it was called this, the street was the cuesta del Zarzal, an earthen rise on the outskirts of Madrid. The present name honours the counts of Del Val, a title the queen regent María Cristina granted in 1888 to Celedonio del Val, a man who had fought in Cuba and gave his fortune to charity. His will ordered the founding of a hospital for the convalescent poor, entrusted to the Daughters of Charity. With that money a brick Neo-Mudéjar building rose here between 1912 and 1916, with three pavilions joined by covered galleries. The Foundation of the Most Holy Virgin and San Celedonio still occupies number 11, today as a home for the elderly.