Leganés
Leganés is a municipality and a city in Spain, located within the Community of Madrid.
Leganés is a municipality and a city in Spain, located within the Community of Madrid. It forms part of the Madrid metropolitan area and is situated 11 kilometers southwest of the capital. As of 2025, it has a population of 195,734 inhabitants, it is the fourth most populous municipality in the Community of Madrid and the thirty-second largest in Spain, according to the list of Spanish municipalities by population.
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Worth seeing in and around Leganés
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.
- 01Estadio Coliseum
Estadio Coliseum is a municipally owned football stadium in Getafe, Spain.
4.2 km · Football stadium in Getafe, Spain · Wikipedia - 02Estadio Municipal de Butarque
The Estadio Municipal de Butarque, known for sponsorship reasons as the Ontime Butarque, is a multi-use stadium located in Leganés, Spain. It is currently used for football matches and is the home stadium of CD Leganés.
1.4 km · Football stadium Leganés, Madrid, Spain · Wikipedia - 03Universidad 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.
500 m · Spanish university · Wikipedia - 04Museo 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.
5.4 km · aviation museum in Madrid · Wikipedia - 05Polideportivo Fernando Martin
Pabellón Polideportivo Municipal Fernando Martin is an arena in Fuenlabrada, Madrid Province, Spain. Opened in September 1991, and named for the Spanish basketball player Fernando Martín Espina, the arena has a seating capacity for 5,700 people.
5.9 km · arena in Fuenlabrada, Spain · Wikipedia - 06Ciudad Deportiva Getafe CF
The Ciudad Deportiva Getafe CF is the training ground and academy base of the Spanish football club Getafe CF. It was opened in 2005. Located in Getafe near the Coliseum Alfonso Pérez and covering an area of 70,000 m2, it is used for youth and senior teams trainings.
4.6 km · training ground of Getafe CF · Wikipedia
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Getting to Leganés
- Airports
- Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas (MAD), 25 km · Zaragoza (ZAZ), 273 km · Valencia (VLC), 295 km
- Stations
- Cuatro Vientos Airport, 5 km · Parque de los Estados, 5 km · Puerta del Sur, 4.5 km · San Nicasio, 1.3 km · Conservatorio, 4.2 km
- Valencia → Leganés7103 km · quickest by air, 16h 28m · $1,090–1,690
- Zaragoza → Leganés284 km · quickest by road, 4h 37m · €33–46
- Bilbao → Leganés334 km · quickest by air, 4h 33m · €110–170
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Leganés
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 Leganés. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- 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.
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Next door to Leganés
Leganés is 11 km from Madrid, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Getafemunicipality in Community of Madrid, Spain5.1 km
- Fuenlabradamunicipality in the Madrid metropolitan area5.8 km
- Alcorcóncity in the metropolitan area of Madrid, Spain5.9 km
- Villaverde17th city district of Madrid, Spain5.1 km
- Villaverde Alto, Casco Histórico de Villaverdeneighborhood in Madrid5 km
- Buenavistaneighborhood in Madrid4.4 km