Calle de Pedro Villar

The street keeps a person’s name, Pedro Villar, without any reliable record of whom it refers to or why he received this tribute. The municipal register holds the sign, but not the origin. It touches a curious point of the Castillejos street map, bound to the memory of the African war of 1859-1860: the district’s own name recalls the battle of 1 January 1860, where General Prim won fame and the marquis title he took from that spot. In that military context, a Pedro Villar fits easily with the figure of an officer, though no source confirms it. Whoever walks it today treads a plaque that keeps a common surname and a first name, without the story that joined them to the map of Madrid.