Calle Ebro

The name comes from the Ebro, Spain’s largest river, which crosses the peninsula from northwest to southeast before opening into its delta on the Mediterranean. It rises near Fontibre, on the slopes of the Cantabrian range, and runs some nine hundred kilometers to Tarragona, where it forms a delta of rice fields and lagoons that shifts shape with every flood. The calle Ebro belongs to a group of El Viso streets named after peninsular rivers, a common practice in the Madrid expansions of the early twentieth century. It falls within the residential estate designed in the 1930s by Rafael Bergamín, with its low houses and gardens. The river’s own name holds an ancient root: from the Latin Iberus comes the term the classical geographers applied to the whole peninsula, Iberia.