Calle del General Ampudia

The street recalls a general surnamed Ampudia, though the record does not specify which one. The surname was borne by several nineteenth-century Spanish soldiers, among them a family of Cuban origin that gave the army a father and sons with stripes. The best known, Pedro, born in Havana when the island was Spanish, ended his career on the other side of the Atlantic as a Mexican general and defender of Monterrey, so he is hardly the one who gives the street its name. The exact reason for the dedication is not documented. The Calle del General Ampudia runs through this stretch of Vallehermoso, in an area of Chamberí signposted well into the twentieth century with the names of nineteenth-century soldiers. A few streets away appears the name of another, different general.