Calle de Rosendo Conde

The name of Calle de Rosendo Conde points to a person, but no reliable record survives of who he was or why the street was named for him. His biography, his trade, and his tie to the district are missing: the origin is undocumented. The street opens in Valdeacederas, one of the fabrics that the Madrid map gradually absorbed. The place name circulated long before there were houses here: it referred to farmland and reappears from the mid-nineteenth century tied to the works of the Canal de Isabel II, one of whose aqueducts bore that same name and still surfaces in the Rodríguez Sahagún park. In that Tetuán de las Victorias of mud, taverns, and improvised growth, many streets took the surname of owners, developers, or neighbors whose memory never reached print. Rosendo Conde is one of those names with no known biography.