Calle de Villaamil
It honours the painter Genaro Pérez Villaamil, the foremost figure of Spanish Romantic landscape, who signed his paintings only with that surname.
The name pays tribute to Genaro Pérez Villaamil (Ferrol, 1807 — Madrid, 1854), the great landscape painter of Spanish Romanticism. He found his calling in Seville, when he met the Scot David Roberts and learned from him the dramatic light of Romantic landscape.
From then on he travelled to cathedrals, castles and monasteries with a sketchbook under his arm, took notes from life and later turned them, in his Madrid studio, into monumental views that mixed real architecture with invented atmosphere. From those journeys came España artística y monumental, an album of lithographs published in Paris around 1842 that ranks among the most beautiful illustrated books of the century. Much of his work hangs today in the Prado.
Calle de Villaamil marks the western edge of Valdeacederas, its border with Moncloa-Aravaca.