Calle de Quesada

Quesada is a town in the province of Jaén, perched in the Sierra de Cazorla, whose name became attached to this short street in the Trafalgar neighborhood. The place name comes from Arabic, and tradition links it to the idea of a fertile, sheltered spot, fitting for a town that watches over ravines and olive groves from on high. Its district holds a geographic treasure: in the Cañada de las Fuentes the Guadalquivir rises, the great river that crosses Andalusia to the Atlantic. The Calle de Quesada, barely a hundred meters, belongs to the grid of Chamberí laid out in the 19th century, when the northern expansion was naming its streets after towns and landscapes of Spain. No record survives of the exact reason for the dedication.