Calle de Luis Peidró

The calle de Luis Peidró carries the name and surname of a person, but no record survives of who he was or when the street was named in his memory. The only firm thing is the plaque itself: someone the city wished to remember and whose trace was lost. The street lies in Adelfas, between the old bridges of Pacífico and Vallecas, at the southern edge of the Retiro district. It was a working-class corner of low houses and workshops, next to the Cerro de la Plata and its factories. A tenement block from the late nineteenth century survives here, with wooden galleries opening onto a shared courtyard, in an area neighbours knew as Las Californias. In the eighties, a reform plan proposed demolishing the housing nearby. The tenement stood thanks to the persistence of neighbourhood associations, which managed to have it listed among protected buildings. Today it houses a social and cultural centre.