Calle del Monasterio de Leyre

The name evokes the monastery of San Salvador de Leyre, perched on the mountain range of the same name, above the Yesa reservoir, in Navarre. Spiritual cradle of the old kingdom of Pamplona, Leyre held in its church the burial place of the first Pamplonese kings, along with a crypt of heavy columns and the famous Puerta Speciosa. Its founding is lost before written memory: Saint Eulogius recorded staying there around the year 848. Razed in the tenth century, it was rebuilt by order of King Sancho García around 1020. Today a community of Benedictine monks lives there, and travelers from across Europe come for its Gregorian chant. Calle del Monasterio de Leyre is a short street in Valdeacederas, barely seventy meters. No record survives of exactly why this corner of Tetuán took the name of a Navarrese monastery, but it shares its neighborhood with other streets named after Spanish monasteries, a small monastic geography traced across the map of the district.