Plaza de Aragón

The name recalls Aragón, the medieval kingdom whose crown once reached across the Mediterranean to Sicily, Sardinia and Naples, and which lives on today as a region of highlands, north winds and the river Ebro. The Crown of Aragón was born in the twelfth century from the union of the Aragonese kingdom with the county of Barcelona. Here the place name does not travel alone. When Cuatro Caminos grew in the early twentieth century, its streets took the names of the map of Spain: provinces and regions scattered across the plan like an atlas at neighbourhood scale. Teruel, Jaén, Palencia and Salamanca belong to that same family, and the Plaza de Aragón adds one of the old peninsular crowns to the puzzle. The result is a small corner where walking a few metres amounts, on paper, to crossing from one province to another without leaving Tetuán.