Calle del Ventorrillo
The street owes its name to the Ventorrillo del Sol, a small roadside inn that operated here from the 16th to the 18th century. It served the people of Madrid who walked down toward the Manzanares for the Santiago el Verde festival each 1 May. When the inn vanished, the street kept its name.
Calle del Ventorrillo, in Embajadores, is one of the shortest in Lavapiés: a few meters between Calle de la Huerta del Bayo and Calle del Casino.
It is named after the Ventorrillo del Sol, one of the stops along the road that the people of Madrid walked each 1 May toward a hermitage on an island in the Manzanares. They called it Santiago el Verde, and the king and the humblest laborer alike went to the festival, gathering around the same inn. The celebration filled the 16th and 17th centuries — Lope de Vega devoted a play to it — and faded away around 1800. At number 7 survives a corrala tenement from 1900 that served as a set for the series Antidisturbios.
Its names
- Calle del VentorrilloSiglo 18th (figura en Espinosa 1769) – actualidad
Sources (7)
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