Paseo del Molino
The promenade recalls the mills that worked beside the Manzanares, in the strip of Arganzuela that would later become Legazpi.
The name looks to the water. Before Legazpi was a neighborhood, this bank of the Manzanares was pastureland and machines driven by the current, and Paseo del Molino owes its name to a mill. Nearby ran the Royal Canal of the Manzanares, and at its first locks the fall of the water turned flour mills. From that world of wheels and flour the place name survives, though there is no record of which mill exactly gave the street its name.
The promenade also holds a curious destination for lost things: at number 7 stands the City Lost Property Office, where the umbrellas, wallets and keys that Madrileños leave behind on the metro, the bus or the taxi end up.