Calle José Antonio Zapata
A street bearing a first and last name that points to a specific person, though no documented record survives of whom it honors.
The sign carries a full first and last name, the formula Madrid reserves for honoring a specific person. Who this José Antonio Zapata was is not reliably documented. The municipal records keep the street José Antonio Zapata and its route in the Legazpi neighborhood, but not the reason it was named.
The street is short and lies deep in Legazpi, the corner of Arganzuela that was open country beyond walled Madrid for centuries and only filled with blocks and train lines well into the twentieth century, when the railway and the slaughterhouses pulled the city southward. The surname remains on the sign; its reason is unrecorded.