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Neighborhood of Madrid, Spain

Vallecas

Vallecas was a municipality of Spain that disappeared as such in 1950, when its annexation to the municipality of Madrid took place.

Vallecas
Vallecas · Javier Pérez Montes
The place

Vallecas was a municipality of Spain that disappeared as such in 1950, when its annexation to the municipality of Madrid took place. Nowadays, the territory is shared between two districts: Puente de Vallecas and Villa de Vallecas.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Vallecas

Airports
Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas (MAD), 13 km · Zaragoza (ZAZ), 259 km · Valencia (VLC), 285 km
  • Valencia → Vallecas
    297 km · quickest by road, 4h 5m · €35–49
  • Zaragoza → Vallecas
    270 km · quickest by road, 3h 41m · €32–44
  • Bilbao → Vallecas
    325 km · quickest by air, 3h 25m · €90–130
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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 Vallecas

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 Vallecas. 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

    597 km
  2. 02
    Merzouga and Erg ChebbiMA

    8 ways of moving, 41 sources

    1,033 km
  3. 03
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    1,113 km
  4. 04
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    1,160 km
  5. 05
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 23 sources

    1,171 km

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

Around it

Next door to Vallecas

Vallecas is 8 km from Madrid, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.