Calle Jesús Goldero

In the Legazpi neighborhood, beside the old slaughterhouse and the streets running down toward the Manzanares, a short street of just over a hundred meters carries the name Jesús Goldero. The sign recalls a person, but no reliable record survives of who he was, when he lived, or why the city fixed his memory at this point in Arganzuela. The surname Goldero is very rare in Spain. Legazpi grew in the shadow of the municipal slaughterhouse, built between 1911 and 1924 on the old Arganzuela pasture, and of the railway stations that reached the south of the city. It was a working-class Madrid that was urbanized fast and opened new streets without always recording to whom each sign was dedicated. Jesús Goldero is one of them.