Calle de los Hermanos Pinzón
It recalls the Pinzón brothers, sailors from Palos de la Frontera who captained two of the three caravels on Columbus’s first voyage in 1492.
From a single family of Palos de la Frontera came three brothers who put their seafaring skill at the service of a project many took for madness. Martín Alonso, Vicente Yáñez and Francisco Martín Pinzón set sail in 1492 with Christopher Columbus towards the unknown. Martín Alonso, the most respected in the Huelva town, commanded the caravel La Pinta and drew much of the crew along with him, wary of sailing under a foreigner. Vicente Yáñez skippered La Niña and years later, in 1500, reached on his own account the coasts of what is today Brazil.
Martín Alonso has even been called a co-discoverer of America, though his relationship with Columbus ended in bitterness; he died soon after returning to Spain. Francisco, master of La Pinta, always stayed in his brothers' shadow.
Calle de los Hermanos Pinzón belongs to El Viso, the estate that the architect Rafael Bergamín built in the 1930s with white houses of rationalist air, today one of the most sought-after areas of Madrid.