Plaza Norte
It takes its name from a cardinal point, within a group of squares named after the compass points during the redevelopment of La Ventilla.
Plaza Norte names the space by a cardinal point, like its neighbors Plaza Este and Plaza Oeste, scattered across the redeveloped sector of La Ventilla, in the Almenara district. No tribute to a person or an event. Why the compass points were chosen and why the fourth, the south, is missing has not been preserved.
The square was born with the great urban operation that transformed this strip of Tetuán at the start of this century. Where the low, self-built houses of La Ventilla once stood, new blocks with pale façades appeared. Of the three cardinal squares, the northern one turned out the most cared for: buildings of three storeys or more enclose it like a plaza mayor.
To the north opens the Parque de la Ventilla, also called Parque de los Pinos, with its paths at different levels and the Vía Límite beyond, the line dividing Tetuán from Fuencarral-El Pardo.