Calle de Olite

Olite is a town in southern Navarre famous for the Gothic palace that Charles III the Noble and his wife Eleanor of Trastámara had built at the start of the fifteenth century. Courtyards, moats, hanging gardens and a forest of towers made it one of the most lavish royal residences in the Europe of its day, with lions and camels among the gardens. It burned in 1813 and lay in ruins for more than a century, until twentieth-century restoration gave it back its storybook silhouette. The street belongs to a cluster in Bellas Vistas named after Navarrese places. Nearby are calle de Pamplona, calle Navarra and calle de Beire, another town close to Olite. Many reached the street map when duplicates were resolved, as Madrid absorbed the old outlying towns in the mid-twentieth century.