Calle Virgen de Nieva,
Takes its name from the Virgin of Nieva, a Marian devotion from Segovia whose image, by tradition, was found buried in 1392 by a shepherd.
The name comes from a Virgin of Segovia with a tale of apparition. In 1392 a shepherd, Pedro Amador, said he had seen the Virgin while tending his flock; she asked him to alert the bishop of Segovia to unearth her image, hidden beneath a bed of slate. As the story goes, the carving was found buried, hence the other name by which she is venerated, Virgin of the Soterraña (the buried one).
The find moved Queen Catherine of Lancaster, wife of Henry III, to raise a shrine on the spot and to found around it, in 1395, the town of Santa María la Real de Nieva. The monastery passed to the Dominicans and came to hold the tomb of Blanche of Navarre. The devotion, linked to protection against thunder and lightning, spread across Castile.
Calle Virgen de Nieva traces a short stretch in the Vallehermoso district, one of several streets in Chamberí named after a local Virgin.