Calle Enrique Aguilar
A street dedicated to an Enrique Aguilar of whom no documented record remains, in the old fabric of Tetuán.
The name points to one Enrique Aguilar, but no reliable record remains of who he was or why Madrid carved his name into this corner of Berruguete. The district’s history is silent about him.
The clue lies in the geography. Enrique Aguilar is a short street in the fine mesh that grew north of Madrid when this was still the fringe, the area known as Tetuán de las Victorias after the Moroccan city taken in 1860 during the African War. The barrio took shape on its own along the road to France, and many of those streets took the name of the landowner or of some locally important resident, people that general history never recorded. Enrique Aguilar is likely one of those domestic names that time erased from the story.