Travesía de Pinos Alta
It takes its name from the calle de Pinos Alta, so called after the arroyo de los Pinos that rose in the old Chamartín de la Rosa.
Through this ground ran the arroyo de los Pinos, an intermittent stream that rose in old Chamartín de la Rosa. From that thread of water the calle de Pinos Alta and the calle de Pinos Baja took their names, set apart by the height of the ground. The Travesía de Pinos Alta is the smallest of that family, a short stretch linking to the main street.
Valdeacederas belonged to Chamartín de la Rosa until the town was annexed to Madrid in 1948. By then this strip held modest housing, and between Pinos Alta, Pinos Baja and the old calle de Valdeacederas, today Capitán Blanco Argibay, one of the first postwar clusters of affordable homes was built.
Of the stream barely a trace remains on the map. The travesía, though, is still there, and with it the memory of those pines that watched the water run.