Cuesta del Sagrado Corazón

The slope drops toward the walls of the Sagrado Corazón de Chamartín school, and from it takes its name. The Religious of the Sacred Heart set it up here on land from the estate of the Dukes of Pastrana, in what was then the village of Chamartín de la Rosa. The story goes that the duke did not want to sell, until he settled the matter by refusing once more and offering instead to give the land away. The donation was formalized in 1859 and included a solid old house and ground stretching to the Abroñigal stream, where the M-30 now runs. The school opened that same year with six pupils. That walled enclosure fixed the reference that still orders these streets, and the Cuesta del Sagrado Corazón keeps the devotion that arrived with the nuns.