Calle Vía Límite
A descriptive name: it alludes to a boundary, in keeping with its route along the northern edge of the Almenara neighborhood, though the specific border it evokes is undocumented.
The name is transparent: Vía Límite alludes to a boundary. The street runs along the northern edge of the Almenara neighborhood, in the Ventilla area, beside the line that separates the Tetuán district from Fuencarral-El Pardo. That dividing line is marked by Calle de Sinesio Delgado, parallel and higher up; Vía Límite runs below it, skirting the Parque de la Ventilla. Which exact border the name meant to fix is undocumented.
The area carries a history of shifting boundaries. Tetuán de las Victorias grew as a shantytown of Chamartín de la Rosa, which in 1948 was annexed to Madrid and split between the new districts of Tetuán and Chamartín. The Almenara neighborhood was born of that reorganization.
To one side opens the Parque de la Ventilla, with its pine grove. On Vía Límite a name the street map does not record still survives: the neighborhood is Almenara on paper, but those who live there call it la Ventilla.