Calle de Sangarcía
Takes its name from Sangarcía, a village in the province of Segovia named in devotion to Saint García.
The name travels from the Segovian countryside. Sangarcía is a small village in the province of Segovia, raised by Castilian settlers in the 11th and 12th centuries, when the Christian advance after the taking of Toledo opened this land to colonization. Those settlers gave their hamlet the name of their devotion: Saint García, Benedictine abbot of the monastery of San Pedro de Arlanza. From “San García” run together came Sangarcía, today a municipality of barely a couple of hundred residents.
The calle de Sangarcía is a short street in the Imperial neighborhood, in Arganzuela, near the bridge and the calle de Segovia. The streets of this area gather the names of Segovian towns, as if a piece of that province had settled south of Madrid, between the old town and the Manzanares.