Calle del Pisuerga

The name comes from the Pisuerga, the river that rises in the Palencia mountains, at the Fuente del Cobre, and runs more than two hundred and seventy kilometers before giving its waters to the Duero near Simancas. Along part of its course it marks the natural border between Palencia and Burgos. Valladolid drinks from its flow, having grown wrapped around its banks, and from it comes the water that in the 18th century fed the Canal de Castilla. The street belongs to a corner of El Viso where the street map reads like a map of Spain’s rivers. A few meters away run Calle del Guadiana, Calle del Guadalquivir, Calle del Henares and Calle del Cinca, paper neighbors that in real geography never meet. El Viso took shape as a residential colony in the 1930s, when Rafael Bergamín and Luis Felipe Vivanco raised their houses of clean lines and quiet gardens.