Calle Molar
Named after El Molar, a town in the north of the Region of Madrid, in a neighbourhood that named many of its streets after villages of the region.
The name travels down from the north of the Region of Madrid. El Molar is a town in the Sierra Norte, about forty kilometres from the capital, and Bellas Vistas brought it here following a local habit: naming its streets after towns of the region, just like Zamora, Tenerife or Almansa nearby.
The origin of the place name is not settled: one account derives it from muela (millstone), for its setting among hills. The town holds some resounding chapters. Philip II granted it the title of villa in 1564, and in 1710, during the War of the Spanish Succession, English troops razed it. Later it grew famous for its Fuente del Toro, a spring of sulphurous water with a reputation for healing.
From that mountain corner came this short stretch of Bellas Vistas, barely sixty metres of asphalt that echo the map of Madrid in miniature.