Calle Hermanos de Andrés

The name recalls Juan and Demetrio de Andrés, lay teachers who taught in La Ventilla when this corner of northern Madrid was a fringe of low houses and open lots. They helped raise the area’s first Catholic school, alongside Father José María Rubio, and died during the Civil War; local memory recalled them as the “martyrs of La Ventilla”. The name reached the map on 5 June 1959. Before that, this stretch between San Aquilino and Magnolias was called calle del Vertedero. Today it is barely a hundred and thirty metres of quiet street in Almenara, with no plaque to explain the story.