Paseo de los Cerezos
The avenue takes its name from the cherry tree, the fruit tree whose white and pink blossom opens the spring.
The cherry tree lends its name to this avenue in the Hispanoamérica district, on what were fields of Chamartín de la Rosa. The tree blooms before it puts out leaves: for a few days it covers itself in white and pink, and then gives a brief, early fruit that the calendar ties to the start of spring.
The avenue belongs to an area of residential colonies laid out in the garden-city taste, with low houses and their own gardens, raised on the old Chamartín land from the 1920s on. In those developments took hold the custom of naming streets for trees and flowers, and the Paseo de los Cerezos belongs to that botanical family.
Today it is a quiet street of terraced houses, set apart from the noise of the avenues around it, in a corner of Chamartín where the map still keeps the air of the old colonies.