Calle de Manuela Mínguez

In the streets of Valdeacederas, north of Tetuán, this short road bears the name of a woman called Manuela Mínguez. And there ends everything that can be said for certain. Who she was is not documented. The municipal registers list her without a biography, and the neighborhood walks that have catalogued Tetuán’s streets named after women place her among those of whom nothing is known. The name survives; the person does not. Walking along Manuela Mínguez means crossing a name with no known story, kin to other plaques in the district that name someone without being able to say who.