Calle Pinarillo

Pinarillo is the diminutive of pinar, a small pine grove. The name refers to the mass of pines that clothed these high lands of northern Madrid before the houses arrived. When the town was still called Chamartín de la Rosa, the area was countryside, with groves that stretched toward the Pinar de Chamartín, a place-name that still survives a little farther north. At the start of the twentieth century, the colonies of small villas of the Ciudad Jardín neighborhood were laid out on that land, following the English garden-city idea: low houses, a garden in front, quiet streets. Pinarillo is one of those streets, short, about seventy meters. There is no record of why this name was chosen or which particular little wood it referred to.