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Alcorcón

Alcorcón is a city and municipality of Spain located in the Community of Madrid.

Alcorcón
Alcorcón · Wikimedia Commons
The place

Alcorcón is a city and municipality of Spain located in the Community of Madrid. As of 2022, it had a population of 170,296.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Alcorcón

6 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
    Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

    Universidad Carlos III de Madrid is a public university in the Community of Madrid, Spain. Established in 1989, UC3M is an institution with a distinctly international profile.

    6 km · Spanish university · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    King Juan Carlos University

    Rey Juan Carlos University is a Spanish public research university located in the southern area of the Community of Madrid, with five campuses at Móstoles, Alcorcón, Vicálvaro, Aranjuez and Fuenlabrada. It is named after former king Juan Carlos I of Spain and has the Latin motto Non nova, sed nove.

    3.8 km · university in Madrid, Spain · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Estadio Municipal de Santo Domingo

    The Estadio Municipal de Santo Domingo is a football stadium located in Alcorcón, Community of Madrid, Spain. It is currently the home ground of AD Alcorcón.

    1.4 km · football stadium in Alcorcón, Madrid, Spain · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Museo de Aeronáutica y Astronáutica

    Museum of Aeronautics and Astronautics, also known as Air Museum, is an aviation museum located at the Cuatro Vientos Air Base in Madrid, Spain, devoted to the history of the Spanish Air and Space Force. It is one of the National Museums of Spain and it is attached to the Ministry of Defence.

    3.1 km · aviation museum in Madrid · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Estadio El Soto

    Estadio El Soto is a stadium in Móstoles, Madrid, Spain. It is currently used for football matches and is the home stadium of CD Móstoles URJC. The stadium holds 14,000 spectators.

    5.8 km · stadium in Móstoles, Madrid, Spain · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Castle of Villaviciosa de Odón

    The Castle of Villaviciosa de Odón is a palace-fortress complex found in the small town of the same name near Madrid, Spain. It is located on Madrid Avenue.

    5.4 km · medieval castle in Villaviciosa de Odon · 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 Alcorcón

Airports
Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas (MAD), 27 km · Zaragoza (ZAZ), 276 km
Stations
Cuatro Vientos Airport, 4.7 km · Puerta del Sur, 1.9 km · Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, 3.7 km · Manuela Malasaña, 5.2 km · Pradillo, 4.1 km
  • Valencia → Alcorcón
    7098 km · quickest by air, 16h 35m · $1,100–1,690
  • Zaragoza → Alcorcón
    287 km · quickest by road, 4h 41m · €33–46
  • Bilbao → Alcorcón
    333 km · quickest by air, 4h 40m · €120–180
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
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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 Alcorcón

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 Alcorcón. 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

    589 km
  2. 02
    Merzouga and Erg ChebbiMA

    8 ways of moving, 41 sources

    1,029 km
  3. 03
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    1,129 km
  4. 04
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    1,166 km
  5. 05
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 22 sources

    1,190 km

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

Around it

Next door to Alcorcón

Alcorcón is 13 km from Madrid, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Móstolescity in the autonomous community of Madrid, Spain3.4 km