At number 21, Calle Segovia is a modern building. Attached to it, on the side facing the viaduct, is the shield they say is the oldest preserved Madrid, corresponding to a seventeenth-century reconstruction of an older, sixteenth century.
This shield was previously in a seventeenth century house, the house called the Shepherd, which was demolished in 1972 although its crumbling facades have been preserved until the 80's.
that the house was owned by an old clergyman, who looked ill and having no seed left his home as a testament to the first person to go through the door at dawn the day after his death. It was quepasa a shepherd with his flock which way to the bank of the Manzanares. And this man accepted the last will of the clergy. And hence the name of the house.
Photo of the Casa del Pastor in 1964 from the blog: http://urbancidades.wordpress.com/2007/11/21/178/
(Photo: José Luis Berzal Pérez, 1964)
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