Calle de Nuestra Señora del Carmen

The name recalls the Virgin of Carmen, one of the most deeply rooted Marian invocations in Spain. Its origin is Mount Carmel, in the Holy Land, where around the thirteenth century a group of hermits inspired by the prophet Elijah formed the Carmelite order. In time the invocation became one of the sea: in the eighteenth century the Spanish Navy took her as patron, and each 16 July the brotherhoods still carry the Virgin in procession over the waves in the country’s ports. The street belongs to Berruguete, a Tetuán district with no palaces or famous architects, made of small shops, modest houses and slopes. Nearby, on neighboring Tablada, rehearsal studios have run since 1980, passed through by Los Rodríguez and La Frontera.