Pasaje de Belalcázar
Recalls Belalcázar, a town in Córdoba’s Los Pedroches region whose name was born from its castle, the “bello alcázar” or beautiful fortress.
Belalcázar is a town in the north of Córdoba province, in the Los Pedroches region. Its name holds a small tale of noble pride: when the Sotomayor family raised their Gothic fortress there in the 15th century, the town ended up taking the name of its monument, a contraction of bello alcázar, beautiful fortress. That castle still dominates the plain with its keep, the tallest in Spain.
El Viso was built up in the 1930s on one of the heights north of the city. Among its streets, given over largely to rivers of the peninsula, is this one for the Córdoban town. The Pasaje de Belalcázar is one of the short stretches that stitch together the district’s cluster of small villas, today the wealthiest in the capital.
Crossing it takes barely two minutes. At the other end of the name stands the battlemented silhouette of a castle over the pastures of Los Pedroches.