Calle de Viejas
A short street in the Castilla neighborhood whose name, the common word “viejas” (old women), goes unexplained in the sources.
The Calle de Viejas is a brief stretch of the Castilla neighborhood ending near Calle de Mauricio Legendre, the axis leading toward Chamartín station. The sign is spare: “Viejas” (old women), with no surname, saint, or trade, stands as a loose word in the street directory.
The sources record its layout and postal code but not the reason for the name, which remains undocumented. It should not be confused with the other street of the same name in old Madrid, downtown, which tradition linked to a story of two elderly women; that legend belongs to another part of the city.