Pasaje de La Remonta

The name comes from a military trade now almost forgotten. The remonta was the army service that supplied horses to the cavalry: it bought colts at fairs, raised them and delivered them to the regiments. From that work of replacing mounts the place name remained. In 1920 the Remonta cavalry barracks rose here, with a riding school that ran until the early 1980s. Earlier the plot had been the Quinta de los Castillejos, with tram sheds beside it. When the land passed to the city, the Plaza de la Remonta was built over it, one of the largest arcaded squares in Madrid. At the entrance, a ceramic mural depicts a scene of horses. The Pasaje de La Remonta, barely fifty metres long, keeps the word those stables gave the place.