Calle del Limonero

The name evokes the lemon tree, the evergreen citrus that scents the courtyards and orchards of the Mediterranean. It belongs to a small family of streets named after trees and plants laid out in the Castillejos neighborhood, where the street plan preferred botany to saints and generals. This street was once called calle de Castillejos, the same name as the whole neighborhood. The change came in 1948, when Madrid absorbed Tetuán de las Victorias and found duplicated streets on both sides of Bravo Murillo. To untangle the confusion, this one became the Lemon Tree street. Why that tree and no other was chosen has not been documented. Today Calle del Limonero is a narrow little street, barely five meters wide, running parallel to Bravo Murillo between Oñate and General Margallo.