Calle de Ruiz Perelló
The street takes its name from a compound surname, Ruiz Perelló, whose personal referent appears in no authoritative source consulted. It marks the western edge of the Madrid Moderno estate, promoted around 1888–1890 by the businessman Mariano Santos Pinela and the architect Julián Marín, and appears in the official street register with postal code 28028 and a length of roughly 233 meters.
La Guindalera grew between the last third of the 19th century and the first of the 20th. The owners of the plots east of the Ensanche parceled out their estates and opened new streets, and to these minor ways they usually gave the surname of the neighboring landowner or of some local figure involved in the division. Calle de Ruiz Perelló was born of that impulse.
On its western side, the street borders the Madrid Moderno estate, a district of terraced villas of Neo-Mudéjar and Modernist air that the businessman Mariano Santos Pinela and the architect Julián Marín raised between 1890 and 1906.
The curious thing is that no one knows who Ruiz Perelló was. Neither the COAM catalogue, nor the City Council’s Geoportal, nor the studies on Madrid Moderno identify the figure. The trail rests in the surname. Perelló is of Catalan and Valencian origin, comes from the place name El Perelló and links to the Catalan perelló, “wild pear tree.” Joined to Ruiz, it forms a double surname that points to a plot owner or a prominent resident of the late 19th century.