Calle de Prádena del Rincón

In the far northeast of the province, a hundred kilometres from this pavement, stands Prádena del Rincón, a village in the Sierra del Rincón within the biosphere reserve declared by UNESCO. From there comes the name. The place name rests on the land. Prádena harks back to prado, the meadow, to the pastures that surround the hamlet in a sheltered valley, and the addition “del Rincón” fixes its position in that remote range, wedged against the borders with Segovia and Guadalajara. The place appears as early as the eleventh century and was joined to the Comunidad de Villa y Tierra of Buitrago del Lozoya after the medieval resettlement. It keeps the church of Santo Domingo de Silos, of Romanesque-Mudéjar design. The street belongs to Prosperidad, in Chamartín, a neighbourhood that grew as an outskirt in northern Madrid. What in the mountains is a meadowed valley closed by peaks is here a few metres of asphalt bearing the name of that upland pasture.