Travesía de los Trujillos

Travesía de los Trujillos links the calle de los Trujillos with the plaza de San Martín, in the Sol quarter. Before it settled on the surname of the siblings Ana and Esteban de Trujillo, it was also called del Clavel, de los Muertos and del Ataúd (of the Coffin). That last name came from a yard belonging to the parish of San Martín where the gravediggers lived. A communal coffin was kept there, reserved by the Brotherhood of San Sebastián for charity burials: they collected the poor on a stretcher, carried them to the parish for the service, and then took them to the cemetery of the Hospital de la Buena Dicha. Neighbourhood children learned to behave under the threat of being shut up in that yard. Corpus Barga, born in a stately house on the calle de los Trujillos, portrayed it in Los pasos contados as a wide, uneven alley, with one side longer than the other.