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# Vallecas

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

[Plan a trip to Vallecas](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Vallecas) [From Valencia](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Valencia&to=Vallecas)

## Every way there

- Valencia → Vallecas 297 km · quickest by road, 4h 5m · €35–49 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/valencia-to-vallecas) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Valencia&to=Vallecas)
- Zaragoza → Vallecas 270 km · quickest by road, 3h 41m · €32–44 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/zaragoza-to-vallecas) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Zaragoza&to=Vallecas)
- Bilbao → Vallecas 325 km · quickest by air, 3h 25m · €90–130 [Guide](https://www.mixroutes.com/routes/bilbao-to-vallecas) [Today](https://www.mixroutes.com/results?from=Bilbao&to=Vallecas)

Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.

The field note

What is in and around Vallecas, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

[Read the note on Vallecas](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/vallecas)

What Vallecas has

- Y Scheduled flights Madrid (MAD), 13 km
- Y Trains and coaches Transitous carries 126 timetable feeds for this country, 24 with real-time
- N Ferries no crossing within 25 km
- Y Driving and taxi OpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
- N Bike and scooter share no share feed known
- N Cruises no open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known.

40.383°, -3.617°

Nowadays, the territory is shared between two districts: Puente de Vallecas and Villa de Vallecas.

How locals move

## Getting around Vallecas the local way

- Get in A 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](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Madrid%2FMoncloa), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

Text adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vallecas), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Javier Pérez Montes (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.


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