Calle de Titán
Evokes the Titans of Greek mythology, the primordial gods born of Uranus and Gaia, though no record explains why the name was chosen for the street.
The name looks back to the first generation of Greek gods, the Titans, children of the sky (Uranus) and the earth (Gaia). Cronus, the youngest, dethroned his father and reigned until his own son Zeus defeated him in the Titanomachy, the war that ended with the vanquished shut away in Tartarus, the deepest corner of the underworld.
From the name came the word we still use for the enormous: today’s “titan,” the colossal, that which pushes beyond its own measure.
Why this corner of Legazpi received a name from Greek cosmogony has left no reliable record. The street runs through an industrial and railway zone beside Méndez Álvaro, and one of its buildings houses offices of Adif, the manager of the rail lines.