Calle de Numancia
Named after Numancia, the Celtiberian town near present-day Garray (Soria) that resisted Rome until its fall in 133 BC.
The name comes from Numancia, the Celtiberian town that stood beside present-day Garray, near Soria. There a people of Arevaci held off Rome’s legions for twenty years, until Scipio Aemilianus ringed it with a siege wall several kilometers long and let hunger do the rest. In the summer of 133 BC most of the Numantines chose death over slavery, and the defeat soon became a symbol of resistance against a vastly superior power.
Calle de Numancia fits Bellas Vistas, a district in western Tetuán born at the end of the nineteenth century on the far side of the road to France, today Bravo Murillo. Its narrow lanes mix place names like Pamplona or Zamora with old glories, among them a city that ceased to exist over two thousand years ago.