Calle Gómez Cano
A short street in El Viso (Chamartín) bearing a compound surname whose owner is not reliably documented.
Gómez Cano is a brief stretch, barely a hundred metres, at the edge of El Viso, in Chamartín. The name points to a person, but no reliable record survives of who they were or why the street was dedicated to them.
The fact stands out because El Viso is a neighbourhood of deliberate naming. When the estate took shape in the 1930s, its streets were christened with rivers —Arga, Nervión, Sil, Turia— and with names from the art world. Gómez Cano falls outside that scheme, and the dedication remains undocumented.