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Alcobendas

Alcobendas is a municipality of Spain located in the Community of Madrid.

Alcobendas
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The place

Alcobendas is a municipality of Spain located in the Community of Madrid.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Alcobendas

5 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    Autonomous University of Madrid

    The Autonomous University of Madrid, commonly known as la Autónoma, is a Spanish public university located in Madrid, Spain. The university was founded in 1968 by royal decree.

    5.5 km · Spanish public university established in 1968 · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Institute of Mathematical Sciences

    The Institute of Mathematical Sciences is a mixed institute affiliated to the Spanish National Research Council in partnership with three public universities: the Autonomous University of Madrid, the Charles III University of Madrid and the Complutense University of Madrid. Founded in 2010, the ICMAT headquarters is located in the Cantoblanco Campus in Northern Madrid.

    4.9 km · research institute in Spain · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Campo de rugby Las Terrazas

    Campo de Rugby Las Terrazas is a Spanish rugby union stadium in southwest Alcobendas, Madrid. It is the home ground of the local team, Alcobendas Rugby, which plays in the División de Honor league, and was home to the now defunct club Moraleja Alcobendas Rugby Union.

    500 m · Rugby union stadium in Madrid, Spain · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Luis Vallejo Bonsai Museum

    The Luis Vallejo Bonsai Museum is a public access museum located in Alcobendas, Madrid, Spain, dedicated to the display and study of the art of bonsai. The museum was opened in 1995 and is one of the most important in Europe in its class.

    500 m · public access museum in Madrid, Spain · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Parque Princesa Leonor

    Princess Leonor Park is a public park in the city of Madrid, Spain, located within Valdebebas. The park covers 78 hectares and was inaugurated on March 26, 2023.

    5.1 km · Public park · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Go there

Getting to Alcobendas

Airports
Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas (MAD), 7 km · Zaragoza (ZAZ), 251 km · Valencia (VLC), 292 km
Stations
Aeropuerto T4, 5.7 km · Las Tablas, 4.1 km · La Moraleja, 200 m · Marqués de la Valdavia, 900 m · La Granja, 2.2 km
  • Valencia → Alcobendas
    7117 km · quickest by air, 15h 43m · $1,060–1,640
  • Zaragoza → Alcobendas
    262 km · quickest by road, 4h 17m · €31–44
  • Bilbao → Alcobendas
    308 km · quickest by air, 3h 48m · €80–130
  • From anywhere
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Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Alcobendas

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Alcobendas. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inA somewhat unusual means of transportation is the cable car, that links Argüelles with the Casa de Campo (zoo and theme park) while offering a great view of the city.

From Wikivoyage: Madrid/Moncloa, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    ChefchaouenMA

    8 ways of moving, 30 sources

    613 km
  2. 02
    Merzouga and Erg ChebbiMA

    8 ways of moving, 41 sources

    1,050 km
  3. 03
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    1,103 km
  4. 04
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    1,143 km
  5. 05
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 22 sources

    1,166 km

If you know how people move in Alcobendas – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

Around it

Next door to Alcobendas

Alcobendas is 14 km from Madrid, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.