Calle de Ulpiana Benito

Castillejos

It bears the name of Ulpiana Benito, owner of the land through which this street of 1931 Tetuán was laid out.

Only that fact about Ulpiana Benito has been recorded, and her documented history amounts to it. The name survives without the person. Those scant hundred metres form today one side of the so-called Golden Triangle, the block they close together with Bravo Murillo, Capitán Haya and José Castán Tobeñas, in one of the most expensive office districts in Madrid. The given name, Ulpiana, comes from the Latin Ulpius, that of the gens of the emperor Trajan.