Calle de Sahagún

The name travels from the plateau of León, where Sahagún rises between the Cea and Valderaduey rivers. The town grew around a monastery dedicated to the martyrs Facundo and Primitivo, and from that dedication —⁠Sanctum Facundum⁠— the place name wore down until it became Sahagún. In the Middle Ages few places weighed so heavily on the Camino de Santiago. Alfonso VI drove the Cluny reform there and granted the town its charter, an obligatory stop for pilgrims. From those centuries remain the brick churches of San Tirso and San Lorenzo, which give Sahagún its fame as the cradle of Mudéjar in Spain. In Madrid, the street belongs to a local tradition of Bellas Vistas: naming streets after towns of Castile and León. Nearby appear Salamanca and Simancas. Barely seventy meters for a name that once gathered thousands of travelers heading west.