Pasaje de La Remonta
Recalls the Remonta, the army service that bought, bred and supplied horses to the cavalry, whose barracks occupied this plot in Valdeacederas.
The name comes from a military trade now almost forgotten, that of buying colts at fairs, raising them and delivering 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.