Calle de Rosa Menéndez
A street in the Berruguete district whose name, set among the area’s floral nomenclature in the old Tetuán street registry, keeps no documentary record of which Rosa Menéndez it refers to.
The name belongs to the Berruguete nomenclature from before that northern edge of Madrid joined the capital, when the area still depended on Chamartín de la Rosa. That age is enough to rule out the most immediate confusion: it has nothing to do with the Asturian chemist Rosa Menéndez, the first woman to head the CSIC, whose name became known much later.
Berruguete was laid out as a mosaic of streets named for plants and flowers. Nearby lie Margaritas, Magnolia, and Cantueso. Rosa Menéndez falls into that series through its first word, though the surname points to a person and there the plant pattern breaks. No municipal document explains which Rosa Menéndez the plaque refers to.