Calle de Morando

Morando is a surname of Italian origin, also found in Spain, but no archive clarifies whom this street honors or why it was chosen. No record of the reason survives: the name appears on the map with no biography behind it. What is documented is its past. Before this name, this short street in the Almenara district was known as calle del Vertedero, after the dump that once stood in the area. The change to Morando erased that reference and left a surname with no recorded explanation. The street runs between San Aquilino and Magnolias, in the working-class fabric of Tetuán that grew in the late nineteenth century along the road to France. Nearby stand the María Zambrano municipal public library, on the plaza de Donoso, and the long-running Radio Almenara, a neighborhood station based on Magnolias.