Calle de los Trujillos

Sol

The name comes from Ana and Esteban Trujillo, two siblings who lived on this street, whose presence in the official street registry dates from 1835. No public office or merit is recorded for the Trujillo family: the street bears their surname simply because they lived there, a common practice in 19th-century Madrid popular naming.

Calle de los Trujillos, in the Sol quarter, runs from calle de Flora to calle de las Veneras and connects to plaza de San Martín. Its layout existed before the 17th century, though it was once called calle del Clavel. Before the 19th century popular voice knew it as calle de los Muertos (Street of the Dead), and three versions circulated without any prevailing: two soldiers from the Granada war given up for dead who returned alive to their homes here; a Trujillos lineage with properties on the street; and an enclosure raised during an epidemic to hold corpses when the parish cemeteries were overwhelmed. The adjoining alley was no less grim: it was called calle del Ataúd (Coffin Street), after the communal casket the brotherhood of San Sebastián kept for pauper burials. The writer Corpus Barga was born here in 1887 and portrayed this setting in “Los pasos contados.”

Its names

  • Sin rotular (o nombre popular no documentado)Anterior a 1656
  • Calle del Clavelc. 1769
  • Calle de los MuertosAnterior a 1835 (fecha no precisada)
  • Calle de los Trujillos1835 – presente
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