Travesía de Santiago Cordero
It bears the name of a Santiago Cordero of whom no documented record survives, in the manner of so many Valdeacederas streets named for those who ceded the land.
A short stretch, barely ninety meters, links to the street from which it takes its name in the middle of Valdeacederas. The travesía came from the same tight weave of lanes with which the neighborhood grew on the outskirts of Madrid, when Tetuán was still a suburb of market gardens and low houses.
Of Santiago Cordero no reliable record survives. In Valdeacederas a familiar pattern repeats: many streets bear the names of the owners who parceled out their estates and ceded them to the urban layout in exchange for a place on the map. Cordero was most likely one of those landowners, anonymous to general history. To tie the name to a specific person, with dates and trade, would be to invent what the sources do not support.
The neighborhood tells its origin in its name: Valdeacederas, the valley of the sorrels, that sharp-leaved plant that grew beside the streams. On that garden soil the Travesía de Santiago Cordero is a short seam between two larger streets.