La Fuente del Berro: una quinta y parque singular en el Madrid contemporáneo (paisaje, memoria y conocimiento del medio)

Abstract

Urban space has been built at the expense of rural space, a reality that the youngest public does not know, reducing its relationship with it to punctual leisure (and with it the essential function of the rural throughout the history of the human being). Even on the part of those young people who may have grandparents who had once worked in the fields, the rural is manifestly remote and linked to hard work and restlessness. The time in which the rural population had a very notable presence does not exist in the worldview of the youngest, including the teachers in training, although behind the reality and urban epidermis the memory of the rural environment emerges. This text tries, on the one hand, to focus on the evolution of the Quinta de La Fuente del Berro and its closest environment, highlighting the footprints and memory of the rural environment of the Madrid neighborhoods of Las Ventas and La Fuente del Berro, pointing out on the other hand the didactic potential of this part of the eastern expansion of the Spanish capital.