Plaza del Amanecer en Méndez Álvaro
A landscaped square created in 1990 next to Méndez Álvaro, with a poetic name evoking dawn whose motive went unrecorded.
The Plaza del Amanecer en Méndez Álvaro was created in 1990, when south-east Arganzuela still mixed warehouses, rail lines and plots under redevelopment. Its surname ties it to the calle de Méndez Álvaro; the square, by contrast, skipped any tribute and settled for an open word.
It works as a small landscaped breather. At one end stands an ornamental fountain named Amanecer: two stacked basins, a trapezoidal one below and a circular one above, with a central jet ringed by arcing spouts. The water, benches and trees give it the feel of a neighbourhood courtyard in an area long dominated by industry, where office and residential towers now rise.