Calle Puerto de Miravete

The name travels to Cáceres, near the Montes de Toledo, barely reaching 666 meters. There, the Miravete pass crowned the old Camino Real de Extremadura, overlooking the valleys the Tagus and the Almonte carved into the rock. The migrating flocks of the Mesta climbed over that pass toward their winter pastures, following the royal drove road, and beside it grew the Venta de San Andrés, a stop for beasts and muleteers before facing the slope. Its strategic value left a mark: the castle of Miravete, raised on the summit in medieval times, once watched over it. The street belongs to the part of Legazpi that residents call “Los Puertos”: a cluster of streets named after mountain passes from across Spain, such as Puerto Serrano or Puerto de Béjar. Today that Cáceres pass is crossed by tunnel, while its name remains lettered more than two hundred kilometers away, in southern Madrid.