Calle de Yeseros

Calle de Yeseros runs down from calle de la Redondilla to calle de la Morería, in the very heart of Habsburg Madrid. The ground holds military memory: around 1440 this stretch was part of the cavas, the ditches protecting the Christian wall raised from the 12th century, and right beside it lay the Morería, the Muslim quarter after Alfonso VI took the city around 1083. The name betrays the trade. Plaster sustained the Madrid that came before the factories, and the subsoil of the Manzanares basin was sown with veins of selenite. The plasterers, gathered in a guild brotherhood, set their workshops at this end because the slope down to Las Vistillas gave them easy access to the quarries. A document of 1769 already fixes the name in full, in a file that passed through the ruling of Ventura Rodríguez, chief master of works of the city. The street has changed its skin recently: the 2020 works levelled roadway and pavement, and in May 2024 the city pedestrianised the stretch between Bailén and the Morería.