Calle Valdelaguna

To name much of this area, southern Arganzuela turned to the map of its own province, and the choice here was Valdelaguna, a village in the southeast of the region, in the Las Vegas district beside the valley of the Tajuña river. The name breaks into two parts: val, an old form of “valle” (valley), and laguna (lagoon). It was the valley of the lagoon. That standing water already appears in Philip II’s topographical surveys of 1576, which note a spring in a meadow by the royal road that formed a lagoon. It was later drained for reasons of health, since stagnant water was linked to fevers. The name kept the memory of a lagoon that no longer exists. There is no record of why this village was chosen over the many others in the province. The street is short and carries water in its name.