Calle de Palacios

The name points to a person, a Palacios, but the street map has kept no memory of who he was. No reliable record survives of whether it honors a soldier, a resident or a landowner; the detail was lost along the way, as happens with so many minor streets in the fringes that grew fast north of Madrid. The street lies in Berruguete, one of Tetuán’s six districts, which belonged until 1948 to the municipality of Chamartín de la Rosa. The confusion deepens because the surname Palacios abounds in Tetuán’s fabric: a few steps away runs Ruiz Palacios, without any record anywhere of a link between the two names. Barely a short stretch of asphalt between low brick blocks, with a sign that keeps the surname and has lost the story.