Calle de Torregalindo

The name travels from southern Burgos. Torregalindo is a small town in the Ribera del Duero, watered by the river Riaza, which during the Reconquest formed part of the Christian line of defense. On a hill shaped like a prow, the remains of its castle still hold: a round barbican tower and a single standing wall of the keep. The place-name joins two parts, torre (tower) and the proper name Galindo, a Germanic personal name widespread in the Middle Ages: it marked the fortress with the name of whoever held it. The form Tor de Galindo already appears in a document of 1110. There is no record of who the Galindo who named the place actually was. The street belongs to the Nueva España quarter in Chamartín, a grid laid out in the mid-20th century where many streets take the names of Castilian towns. Torregalindo is one of those transplanted place-names: a village of a handful of residents lent to a street in northern Madrid.