Calle Francisco Campos

The name points to a person, but no record survives of who this Francisco Campos was or why the street was dedicated to him. Several men bore that name in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Spain, and none appears verifiably linked to this El Viso street. What is known is the place. The street belongs to the El Viso estate, built between 1933 and 1936 on one of the highest points in Madrid. Rafael Bergamín laid it out as a neighborhood of affordable houses for a cooperative, with two-story single-family homes, a front garden and a rear yard. What began as a modest estate ended up one of the most coveted corners of the city. The El Viso street registry mixes river names —⁠Sil, Tormes, Nervión, Turia⁠— with tributes to people. Francisco Campos falls into this second group, though the man portrayed left no documented trace.