Calle Guadalix
It bears the name of the Guadalix, a mountain tributary of the Jarama whose Arabic place name means “river of the alders”.
Despite standing in the heart of Berruguete, which honours the sculptors and painters of that name, Calle Guadalix recalls no artist. It takes its name from the Guadalix, a mountain stream that comes down from the Sierra de la Morcuera and gives its waters to the Jarama. The place name comes from Arabic: wad, “channel”, and alix, the alders along its banks; hence its most repeated reading, “river of the alders”.
The same name belongs to the town of Guadalix de la Sierra, known for lending its streets as the set of Bienvenido, Mister Marshall. In urban Berruguete, far from the alders, the Guadalix water has another fate: part of its flow, dammed at Pedrezuela, travels by canal to the taps of Madrid.