Calle de Pradillo

The name comes from a former landowner surnamed Pradillo, whose plots served to extend the old Prosperidad district northward. The surname in turn harks back to a pradillo, a diminutive of prado, the small meadow that so many Castilian place names carry within them. The street was folded into the layout of Chamartín when, in the 1970s, the city finished stitching that edge to the expansion rising from López de Hoyos. For much of the twentieth century it was a semi-industrial artery. Graphic arts, laboratories and services gathered here. At number 42 stood the newsroom of a major Madrid daily until 2007. Later that factory pulse faded. The businesses moved to the outskirts and the uses turned residential, with several of the old buildings awaiting new occupants.