Calle Tajo
Bears the name of the Tagus, the longest river on the Iberian Peninsula, within the series of river streets laid out by the El Viso estate in the 1930s.
Anyone who walks through El Viso walks across a map of rivers. When Rafael Bergamín designed the estate between 1933 and 1936, on one of the heights of Madrid, the newly opened streets received the names of Spanish rivers: Nervión, Tormes, Sil, Turia, Arga, Ebro… and, presiding over them all, Tajo, the longest on the whole peninsula.
The Tagus rises in the Montes Universales, in the Albarracín range, and runs more than a thousand kilometers before emptying into Lisbon. The name goes back to the Latin Tagus; it is usually linked to the idea of cutting, for the deep gorges the river opens in the rock of its upper course.
The estate began as a cooperative of affordable houses for modest employees and ended up as one of the most sought-after neighborhoods in the city. The river that names this calle is the same one that, kilometers to the south, reflects the Alcázar of Toledo.