Calle del Monte Esquinza

Behind the name lies a mountain. Eskintza —⁠also Eskinza or Esquinza⁠— is a modest rise of some 740 metres in the district of Cirauqui, in the Tierra Estella region of Navarre, in the shadow of Montejurra. Its summit, San Cristóbal, still holds the remains of a fortification that housed troops until the end of the third Carlist War. The name comes from Basque, though no reliable meaning has survived. The hill reached Madrid’s map through a feat of arms. On 25 June 1874, the liberal army drove the Carlist bands from those heights. Once the war was over, the city council gave the name to this street, laid out dead straight from north to south in the Almagro expansion. Today Monte Esquinza gathers small mansions and stately façades in one of the calmest stretches of the district, aligned with Zurbano and Almagro itself.