Calle Pozuelo de Zarzón

The name travels from Extremadura. Pozuelo de Zarzón is a small village in the province of Cáceres, in the Alagón valley, set in a hollow ringed by olive groves. This corner of Las Acacias gathered several streets named after Cáceres towns, and the street ended up related to its neighbors, among them Calle de Cáceres. The place-name is only half clear. “Pozuelo” is a diminutive of pozo, well, and abounds in Castilian place-names for hollows and pools; the village fits, set in a slight depression. The suffix “de Zarzón” came late: until 1916 the town was simply Pozuelo, and that year a reform meant to undo repeated names on the map of Spain added the second term. Why “Zarzón” was chosen is not settled with certainty, though a stream called Zarzoso runs through the district. In Madrid, its name serves a short street, one of those tiny streets that transplant a whole village onto a blue sign.