Pasaje de Clavileño

Clavileño never neighed: he was made of wood. In the second part of Don Quixote, a duke and duchess stage a prank on the knight and his squire, presenting them with a wooden horse that, they are assured, flies through the air governed by a peg set in its forehead. Cervantes coined the word by joining clavija, peg, and leño, log. The adventure is pure comedy: they blindfold the two, blow air at them with bellows to fake the wind of the heights, and hold burning tow to their faces to mimic the fire of the sky. Don Quixote and Sancho believe they have sailed through the spheres on a horse that never left the garden. Ciudad Jardín took the names of several of its streets from the novel, and this Pasaje de Clavileño lends that of the imaginary steed to a short stretch, almost as unnoticed as the flight that never happened.