Calle Felipe Campos
The street recalls a Felipe Campos of whom no documentary record has survived.
The sign names a person, Felipe Campos, but his identity has gone undocumented. Who he was, when he lived and why a street in this corner of Chamartín was dedicated to him does not appear in the known municipal records. The name stands without explanation, as with other Madrid streets dedicated to residents or landowners whose memory was never recorded.
The calle de Felipe Campos runs through the El Viso neighborhood, on one of the city’s high points, near the end of calle de Serrano. The neighborhood owes its fame to the estate built between 1933 and 1936 to Rafael Bergamín’s design: white houses of rationalist lines, today among the most sought-after addresses in Madrid.