Calle de Pamplona

The name brings the capital of Navarre to Bellas Vistas, a city the Romans founded as Pompaelo in honor of Pompey and that Basque turned into Iruña. Here it celebrates no local episode: the street belongs to a batch the district labeled with place names from the northern peninsula, which is why it opens between Navarra and Castilla. Bellas Vistas was born as a fringe on the western flank of the old road to France, today Bravo Murillo, and owes its name to the views that opened from those heights. Calle de Pamplona took more than a century to be completed. In 2014 the City Council finally paved the stretch that wraps around Navarra and links to Castilla, over the plot of some low houses recently demolished. Barely nine hundred square meters of asphalt closed a layout that had been half-finished for decades.