Calle Díaz Zorita
A short street in Prosperidad bearing a person’s compound surname, with no surviving record of whom it honors.
The calle de Díaz Zorita is a small street in the heart of Prosperidad, the Chamartín neighborhood that took shape around 1862, when Próspero Soynard began parceling out and selling land on the edge of Madrid.
The sign points to a person: Díaz Zorita has the form of a compound surname, the kind of paired lineage the Madrid street registry tended to reserve for a worthy resident. But no record survives of whom the street was dedicated to or why that surname was chosen. It should not be confused with the nearby Aviador Zorita, in Tetuán, which recalls Demetrio Zorita, the first Spaniard to break the sound barrier. Here, instead, the reason went undocumented.