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District of Madrid in Spain

Vicálvaro

Vicálvaro is a district in the southeast of Madrid, Spain.

Vicálvaro
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The place

Vicálvaro is a district in the southeast of Madrid, Spain. It is named after the former municipality absorbed into the municipality of Madrid in 1951.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Vicálvaro

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
    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.

    3.6 km · football stadium in Madrid, Spain · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    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.

    4.5 km · football stadium · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    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.

    3.2 km · cemetery in Madrid · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Torrespaña

    Torrespaña is a 232 m high reinforced concrete freestanding broadcasting tower in Madrid, Spain. It is the central and main transmission node of the terrestrial television and radio networks in the country as well as the station that covers the city and its metropolitan area.

    5.1 km · Telecommunications Tower of Madrid, Spain · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Madrid Spain Temple

    The Madrid Spain Temple is a temple of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints located in the Pavones neighborhood of Moratalaz, Madrid. Announced on April 4, 1993, by Gordon B. Hinckley, first counselor in the church's First Presidency, during general conference, it became the first temple in Spain and the seventh in Europe.

    2 km · Temple of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints 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 Vicálvaro

Airports
Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas (MAD), 10 km · Zaragoza (ZAZ), 257 km · Valencia (VLC), 285 km
Stations
Pacífico, 5.7 km · Alto del Arenal, 3.5 km · Nueva Numancia, 4.8 km · O'Donnell, 5.6 km · Barrio de la Concepción, 5.3 km
  • Valencia → Vicálvaro
    293 km · quickest by road, 4h 4m · €35–49
  • Zaragoza → Vicálvaro
    268 km · quickest by road, 3h 41m · €31–43
  • Bilbao → Vicálvaro
    323 km · quickest by air, 3h 24m · €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 Vicálvaro

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 Vicálvaro. 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

    600 km
  2. 02
    Merzouga and Erg ChebbiMA

    8 ways of moving, 41 sources

    1,035 km
  3. 03
    ZermattCH

    8 ways of moving, 26 sources

    1,111 km
  4. 04
    Isle of WightGB

    11 ways of moving, 22 sources

    1,157 km
  5. 05
    Cinque TerreIT

    7 ways of moving, 23 sources

    1,170 km

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

Around it

Next door to Vicálvaro

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