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District of Madrid in Spain

San Blas-Canillejas

San Blas-Canillejas is a district to the east of Madrid's city centre.

San Blas-Canillejas
San Blas-Canillejas · Michiel1972
The place

San Blas-Canillejas is a district to the east of Madrid's city centre. The population of the district is an estimated 149,909.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around San Blas-Canillejas

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
    Metropolitano Stadium

    The Metropolitano Stadium, officially referred to as Riyadh Air Metropolitano Stadium due to sponsorship, is a football stadium in Madrid, located in the Rosas neighbourhood in the San Blas-Canillejas district. It has been the home stadium of Atlético Madrid since 2017.

    1.6 km · football stadium in Madrid, Spain · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Alfredo di Stéfano Stadium

    The Alfredo Di Stéfano Stadium is a football stadium in Madrid, Spain. It is named after Real Madrid's former player Alfredo Di Stéfano.

    5.6 km · football stadium in Madrid, Spain · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    Campo de Fútbol de Vallecas

    Campo de Fútbol de Vallecas is a football stadium in the Madrid district of Puente de Vallecas, Spain. Up until 2026, it has hosted football matches as the home of Primera Division club Rayo Vallecano.

    5.4 km · football stadium · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Campo de O'Donnell

    Campo de O'Donnell was a multi-use stadium in Madrid, Spain. The stadium should not be confused with Campo de O'Donnell, which shared the same name and was situated 200 metres away on the same boulevard.

    5.3 km · multi-use stadium in Madrid, Spain · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    La Almudena Cemetery

    The Cementerio de Nuestra Señora de La Almudena, former Necrópolis del Este is a cemetery in Madrid, Spain. It is the largest in Western Europe.

    2.5 km · cemetery in Madrid · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Buen Retiro Palace

    Buen Retiro Palace in Madrid was a large palace complex designed by the architect Alonso Carbonell and built on the orders of Philip IV of Spain as a secondary residence and place of recreation.

    6 km · palace in Madrid, Spain · 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 San Blas-Canillejas

Airports
Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas (MAD), 8 km · Zaragoza (ZAZ), 256 km · Valencia (VLC), 287 km
Stations
Pacífico, 5.9 km · Alto del Arenal, 4.9 km · Ibiza, 5.6 km · Velázquez, 5.9 km · Nueva Numancia, 5.5 km
  • Valencia → San Blas-Canillejas
    296 km · quickest by road, 4h 5m · €35–49
  • Zaragoza → San Blas-Canillejas
    267 km · quickest by road, 3h 33m · €31–43
  • Bilbao → San Blas-Canillejas
    319 km · quickest by air, 3h 14m · €80–120
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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 San Blas-Canillejas

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 San Blas-Canillejas. 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

    602 km
  2. 02
    Merzouga and Erg ChebbiMA

    8 ways of moving, 41 sources

    1,038 km
  3. 03
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    1,109 km
  4. 04
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    1,155 km
  5. 05
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 23 sources

    1,169 km

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

Around it

Next door to San Blas-Canillejas

San Blas-Canillejas is 8 km from Madrid, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.

  • Cosladacity and municipality in the autonomous community of Madrid, Spain4 km
  • Salamanca4th city district of Madrid, Spain5.5 km
  • Retiro3rd city district of Madrid, Spain5.8 km
  • Barajas21th city district of Madrid, Spain5.5 km
  • Ciudad Lineal15th city district of Madrid, Spain4.1 km
  • Hortaleza16th city district of Madrid, Spain5.4 km