Calle de Teruel

The name travels east, to Teruel, capital of the Aragonese province. The street belongs to a constellation of Cuatro Caminos streets named after Spanish cities and provinces: nearby are Jaén, Cuenca, Ávila and Palencia. When the neighbourhood was built up, the street plan drew on that geographic repertoire; why Teruel fell to this stretch has not survived. Teruel keeps the Mudéjar towers of its cathedral, brick and glazed ceramic declared a World Heritage Site. And it keeps its legend: that of the lovers Diego de Marcilla and Isabel de Segura, whose mummies rest in a mausoleum with their sculpted hands about to touch. Here, instead, Teruel is a short street in the working-class heart of Tetuán de las Victorias, where the name of an old inland capital becomes an everyday address.