Calle del Segre

The name comes from a river. The Segre rises in the Cerdanya, descends through the valley, crosses Andorra and enters Spain, where it runs through the provinces of Girona, Lleida and Zaragoza before giving its waters to the Ebro near Mequinenza. At 265 kilometers, it is that great river’s main tributary, and it also names the Lleida region of Segrià. The Romans called it Sicoris, over a pre-Roman root. The street belongs to the El Viso neighborhood, where almost every road bears a river’s name. It begins at the crossing of Cinca and Serrano and ends at the Plaza de los Sagrados Corazones. The neighborhood grew from the colony Rafael Bergamín designed between 1933 and 1936, a garden city of single-family houses that soon became one of the most exclusive residential enclaves in Madrid.