Pasaje de la Fundación
The passage takes its name from the Fundación Caldeiro, a charitable institution created by the will of the notary Manuel Caldeiro Parajuá (Madrid, 1827–1894), which built a large school on Avenida de los Toreros, less than two hundred metres from the passage, and whose popular name became the reference for this part of the Guindalera.
The Pasaje de la Fundación owes its name to a work still standing a few metres away: the Fundación Caldeiro, an orphanage born from a will.
Manuel Caldeiro Parajuá, a notary from a Lugo family, died in 1894 without heirs and left instructions that his fortune create a trust to take in Madrid’s orphaned children and teach them a trade. His executors bought a plot in the Madrid Moderno colony and commissioned Luis María Cabello Lapiedra. Between 1902 and 1906 he raised there a building of some five thousand square metres, in an eclectic style mixing Neo-Gothic with Neo-Mudéjar. The official opening came on 19 March 1911, with three hundred pupils. It still stands, at Avenida de los Toreros 45, on a slight rise that commands the view of the neighbourhood.
A note of honesty is in order: the name is attributed to the Fundación Caldeiro, but no source explicitly certifies the naming. The attribution rests on proximity.