Calle Fundadores

Fuente del Berro

The name refers generically to “the founders” without any documentary source identifying a concrete referent. The street borders the site of the old Barrio del Porvenir del Artesano, promoted from 1879 by the workers' cooperative of the same name, though a reference to founders of religious orders, common in mid-twentieth-century street naming, cannot be ruled out.

Calle Fundadores, in the Fuente del Berro neighbourhood, closes off the northern side of the block it shares with the streets Porvenir, Peñascales and Lanuza. That rectangle holds the memory of a nineteenth-century workers' experiment. The Barrio del Porvenir del Artesano once stood here. In late 1879 the cooperative “El Porvenir del Artesano” bought land beside the Quinta de la Fuente del Berro to build some fifty houses for workers. The first went up in September 1881. Nothing of the cooperative quarter survives: a single 1970s building now fills the entire block. And the question of the name remains. It is tempting to read into Fundadores a tribute to those who launched that cooperative, but no municipal document confirms it. Nor is there proof it points to founders of religious orders. The street keeps its small riddle.

Its names

  • Fundación de la segunda sección de la cooperativa1873
  • Adquisición de terrenosFinales de 1879
  • Primera viviendaSeptiembre de 1881
  • Denominación oficial de Calle del Porvenir1887
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