Calle de Ricardo Gutiérrez

The name points to a Ricardo Gutiérrez meant to be honored when these streets of the old Tetuán de las Victorias were named. Who he exactly was has not survived. The name matches a nineteenth-century Argentine doctor and poet and a Spanish art critic surnamed Gutiérrez Abascal, though nothing documents that the street was dedicated to either. What you do see climbing here is the slope. Calle de Ricardo Gutiérrez starts up a sharp gradient, of the kind that in this stretch of Berruguete forced the sidewalks to be solved with flights of steps. The district grew fast in the early twentieth century over uneven ground, and many of its streets came out short, steep, and named for people whose memory faded from the very sign that recalls them. The walker reads here a common surname and a given name, without knowing whom they greet.