Calle del Labrador

The calle del Labrador runs between the calle de Embajadores and the paseo de la Esperanza, in the Las Acacias district. The name came from no decree or official tribute. The neighbors themselves used it before the street was even signposted, and the council recognized that settled usage in 1855. As to which labrador it refers to, the question stays open. The simplest reading takes it as the trade, that of the man who worked the land. Another tradition holds that the street ran beside the estate of a farmer whom the neighborhood called El Labrador, and that the nickname ended up fixed on the street map. No record settles between the two.