Calle de Palma del Río
Takes its name from the Córdoba town of Palma del Río, whose own name has been read as a memory of the palms that grew beside the river.
The street came into being between 1926 and 1928, when the Colonia de los Cármenes was built on what was then the town of Chamartín de la Rosa, today the Nueva España district. Its developers named the streets by mixing plants and Andalusian towns: Ciprés, Lilas and Saxífraga sit alongside this calle de Palma del Río, which looks towards a town in the Córdoba countryside.
That Palma del Río stands where the Genil hands its waters to the Guadalquivir, and that confluence explains much of its history. The origin of the name splits between two readings: one traces it to the Roman consul Aulus Cornelius Palma, supposed founder of the settlement; the other, more popular, understands it as the palms that lined the riverbank. No record survives to settle which of the two is true, and the Andalusian town is still known today for its orange trees.