Calle Valdemorillo
Takes its name from Valdemorillo, a town in the west of the Madrid region, within the group of Legazpi streets named after villages of the area.
The town sits in the Guadarrama basin.
The name appears early: around 1302 it is already cited as Val del Moriello, and soon after it figures among the hunting grounds in Alfonso XI’s Libro de la Montería. Two readings coexist over its meaning: one takes “valley of the morillo” as a reference to an old Muslim chieftain; the other sees it as a diminutive of Valdemoro. The origin is not documented with certainty.
The town was known for its clay. Local clays fed a pottery tradition and, from 1845, a ceramics factory that sustained the local economy for decades.