Calle Santo Domingo de Silos
Honors Domingo de Silos, the eleventh-century Benedictine abbot who restored the Burgos monastery that bears his name and was venerated as a liberator of Christian captives.
The name travels from a valley in Burgos to this corner of El Viso. Domingo was born around the year 1000 in Cañas, in La Rioja, and rose to prior at San Millán de la Cogolla. A falling-out with the king of Navarre pushed him into Castile, and in 1041 Ferdinand I placed him at the head of an impoverished monastery. There he raised walls, promoted the scriptorium and the library, and left the house so transformed that it ended up taking his name. Its Romanesque cloister remains one of the peaks of Spanish medieval art.
Popular devotion remembered him above all as a redeemer of captives. It is told that hundreds of Christians held in Muslim territory managed to escape after commending themselves to him, and that they carried their shackles to Silos as votive offerings.
The street belongs to the estate that Rafael Bergamín laid out between 1933 and 1936. It barely reaches a hundred and forty meters, among small villas with a front garden and a back patio.