Calle Leñeros

Before it was a street, it was a track. Woodcutters who supplied Madrid with firewood came up and down here, hauling wood cut in the northern hills toward the city’s hearths. The name comes from that traffic. The destination of all that coming and going was today’s Dehesa de la Villa, in the 15th century a fenced, wooded estate called Monte de Amaniel, where locals grazed livestock, hunted and gathered firewood. The woodcutters' path was one of the main routes into that woodland. The Bellas Vistas neighbourhood grew over those paths. The old Paseo de los Leñeros is now calle de Tenerife; calle de Leñeros itself becomes calle de Alejandro Rodríguez once it crosses calle de Numancia.