Calle de Méjico

Around 1860 the Guindalera began to fill up. Several owners cut up their land east of the Ensanche and handed plots to bricklayers to build homes. The streets sprang up in a grid, parallel to the Paseo de Ronda —⁠today Francisco Silvela⁠—⁠, and people named them as they pleased, with names pointing to nothing in particular. In 1887 municipal order arrived and swept away that improvised naming. The one called Doña Mencía woke up turned into Méjico, spelled with the j then used for the country and its capital. Why that name was chosen no one knows: it appears in no council agreement nor in the street guides of the period. Today Méjico runs about 463 metres. At number 53, since 1943, a sports centre has thrived, born of the drive of two brothers named Lazcano Escolá, one a priest and one a doctor who had earlier worn the Real Madrid shirt.

At number 53, the brothers José Luis and Jaime Lazcano Escolá —⁠the first a priest and professor at the Conciliar Seminary of Madrid, the second a former Real Madrid footballer and sports doctor⁠— founded the Apóstol Santiago School of Sports in 1943. The garden that surrounds it, with more than 220 trees and 17,224 m², was listed as being of level 2 interest in the 1997 General Urban Development Plan; the municipal plenary approved a special plan for its conservation on 23 July 2024, published in the BOCM on 5 September 2024.