Calle del Majuelo
The majuelo is the hawthorn, a white-flowering shrub, and also the newly planted vine; the street joins the neighborhood of plant names in Las Acacias.
A majuelo is, in the countryside, two things at once. It names the hawthorn, the thorny shrub that in May covers itself in fragrant white flowers and then gives red fruits that the birds eat. And it also means the young vine, the newly planted stock that does not yet fully yield. Both senses come from the Latin malleolus, the little hammer-shaped shoot used to graft the vine.
The name fits the neighborhood. Las Acacias owes its label to the trees that adorned its avenue, and around it took shape a set of streets named after plants and country trades. The majuelo belongs to that botanical family of local toponymy.
Of the exact reason for this street no documentary record survives: behind the sign there is no person, no event and no date, only the word and its rural weight. It is a short street, its housing largely built in the nineties.