Calle Móstoles
It recalls Móstoles, the town south of Madrid where on 2 May 1808 the proclamation was signed that called the towns to arms against Napoleon’s troops.
The name carries to Ciudad Jardín a town in the south of the region, today one of the most populous cities in the Community of Madrid and for centuries a village settled beside the camino real de Extremadura.
Móstoles took its place in the history of Spain almost by chance. On 2 May 1808, while Madrid rose against Napoleon’s troops, its two ordinary mayors, Andrés Torrejón and Simón Hernández, signed a proclamation calling on the neighboring towns to take up arms and come to the capital’s aid. A courier carried it along the camino de Extremadura toward Badajoz, and the call spread across much of the southwest of the peninsula. From that paper signed in a small town, the story of the Peninsular War is often said to begin.
The street, a short stretch in the quiet layout of Ciudad Jardín, does not record that episode. It is held up by the name, which repeats that of the town of the two mayors.