Calle de Manuel Montilla

Of Montilla no record survives of his life or the merit that earned him the dedication, and little more remains than the surname fixed on a plaque. What is known is the ground it treads. The calle de Manuel Montilla is a short street in Nueva España, one of the districts that passed to Madrid when Chamartín de la Rosa ceased to be its own town, in 1948. Its blocks went up mostly in the second half of the twentieth century, in a residential area that is quiet and tree-lined today, east of the Castellana, where the surname stayed on the sign without the street register noting whom it honoured.