Calle de Manuel Marchamalo
Recalls Manuel Marchamalo Sanz (1845-1912), a teacher and developer who was among those who parceled out the fields north of Madrid where the Tetuán neighborhood was born.
Around 1900, Manuel Marchamalo Sanz joined eight friends to buy farmland on the open ground north of the city and sell it in plots, at prices working people could afford. That deal was among the first to shape today’s Tetuán neighborhood, then an outlying district of orchards and low houses beyond the edge of Madrid.
Marchamalo also frequented the salon that Infanta Isabel, the popular “Chata” and sister of Alfonso XII, held on Thursdays at her palace on Calle de Quintana. Of those fields parceled out at a laborer’s price, there remains today a short street, barely eighty meters, in the heart of Almenara.