Calle de María Panés
A pedestrian street in the Ríos Rosas district dedicated to a woman named María Panés, whose identity has not been documented.
Calle de María Panés is a short pedestrian street, some one hundred and twenty-five meters long, in the Ríos Rosas district, between Modesto Lafuente and Alonso Cano. The name recalls a woman so called, but no record survives of who she was or why Madrid chose to honor her, and her biography remains undocumented.
The surroundings are better dated. The district’s main street, Ríos Rosas, was named in 1880, and around it grew this grid of regular blocks north of Chamberí. María Panés remained a minor street, now pedestrian and the subject of a residents' proposal to turn it into a green space. Whoever passes through here finds a woman’s name with no text to accompany it.