Skip to content
District of Madrid in Spain

Villa de Vallecas

Villa de Vallecas is one of the 21 districts of the city of Madrid, Spain.

Villa de Vallecas
Villa de Vallecas · Chefocom
The place

Villa de Vallecas is one of the 21 districts of the city of Madrid, Spain. It forms, with the district of Puente de Vallecas, the geographical area of Vallecas.

Adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Villa de Vallecas

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
    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.

    3.5 km · football stadium · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    Caja Mágica

    Caja Mágica, also known as the Manzanares Park Tennis Center, is a multi-purpose stadium located in Madrid, Spain. Since 2009, it has been the home of the Madrid Open tennis tournament.

    5.5 km · sports arena · 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.

    4.7 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.

    5.8 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.

    2.4 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 Villa de Vallecas

Airports
Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas (MAD), 13 km · Zaragoza (ZAZ), 259 km · Valencia (VLC), 285 km
Stations
Pacífico, 5.2 km · Menéndez Pelayo, 5.7 km · Alto del Arenal, 2.3 km · Nueva Numancia, 3.9 km · Miguel Hernández, 1.8 km
  • Valencia → Villa de Vallecas
    293 km · quickest by road, 3h 59m · €35–48
  • Zaragoza → Villa de Vallecas
    270 km · quickest by road, 3h 40m · €32–44
  • Bilbao → Villa de Vallecas
    327 km · quickest by road, 4h 43m · €40–55
  • From anywhere
    The planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
    Plan a trip

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 Villa de 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 Villa de 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

    1,172 km

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

Around it

Next door to Villa de Vallecas

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