Plaza Teniente de Alcalde Pérez Pillado

Constantino Pérez Pillado was born in 1912 in a hamlet of the Lugo municipality of Outeiro de Rei and emigrated young to Madrid, where Galician bakers ran much of the capital’s bakehouses. From kneading bread he rose to industrialist and to head the bakeries of the grain trade union. In 1947 he was hit with a 400,000-peseta fine and the closure of his business over a diversion of flour. He recovered, and between 1964 and 1976 served as Madrid’s second deputy mayor, the office carved into the street sign. The square opens in Vallehermoso, where the short Galería de Vallehermoso ends, one of the narrowest streets in Chamberí. A hockey rink project, born of participatory budgeting, met such neighbourhood opposition that it ended up replaced by a green-space refit.