Calle El Parral

In the mid-19th century, La Guindalera grew as a satellite of the Ensanche. Market gardeners arrived who drew on the eastern channel, the irrigation ditch opened in 1868 with the surplus of the Canal de Isabel II. To its west a small sub-neighborhood took shape, known in local speech as El Parral, famous for its open-air eateries serving vegetables from the Abroñigal gardens. Those gardens held out until the late 1950s, when the Parque de las Avenidas covered them with streets. The street inherited the name of the sub-neighborhood. A warning for the curious: no one has verified that a vine arbor actually stood here before development. The farming surroundings make the idea plausible, but no source confirms it for this exact corner.