Calle Maseda

The name sounds like a surname, and it is. Maseda is found above all across Galicia, where it began as a place name: there are spots called Maceda or Maseda in Lugo, Ourense and A Coruña. From those places it became a surname, and from Galicia it reached Madrid with those who migrated to the capital. Its root is usually traced to the Latin mansa, the farmland that gave its name to the place and later to the family that lived on it. Who the Maseda behind this Berruguete street was has not survived. There is no record of whom it honours or when it was named. Berruguete takes its name from calle Berruguete, dedicated to the sculptor Alonso Berruguete. It is one of Tetuán’s six neighbourhoods, with a dense grid and small shops. Maseda measures barely seventy-four metres, a short stretch crossed in a breath.