Puente de Vallecas district (Madrid)

Puente de Vallecas is the 13th of the 21 districts that make up Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain.

It is administratively organized into the neighborhoods of Entrevías (131), San Diego (132), Palomeras Bajas (133), Palomeras Sureste (134), Portazgo (135) and Numancia (136). With 240,917 inhabitants, it is one of the most populated districts in Madrid.

It arose from the annexation of the municipality of Vallecas to Madrid.

Puente de Vallecas borders the districts of:

Villa de Vallecas, to the east, separated by Avenida de la Democracia, the Madrid-Zaragoza railway line and the M-40.
Moratalaz and Vicálvaro, to the north, separated by the A-3.
Retiro and Arganzuela, to the west, separated by the M-30
Usera, to the southwest, separated by the Manzanares River.

Main attractions

At number 3 Avenida de la Albufera is the first modernist building in all of Madrid.

In Entrevías there is an auditorium designed by the architect José Miguel de Prada Poole.

Open-Air Museum of Palomeras Bajas

The architects responsible for the remodelling project of the Poblado Mínimo de Vallecas took advantage of the law to allocate 1% of the budget for the work to the realisation of artistic works, giving rise to an open-air art museum. In the museum there are works by the sculptors Javier Aleixandre, Juan Bordes, Joaquín Rubio Camín, Jesús Valverde; the ceramist Arcadio Blanco and the painters Ceferino Moreno and José Luis Pascual. In 2011 a sculpture from the movement Todo por la praxis was added.

Firefighters Museum

At number 4 Calle Boada is the Firefighters Museum of Madrid.

Transport

Cercanías Madrid

Three stations serve part of the district, all with service from lines C-2, C-7 and C-8 of Cercanías Madrid:

Asamblea de Madrid-Entrevías
El Pozo
Vallecas

Lines C-3, C-3a and C-4 pass through the Entrevías neighbourhood (renfe facilities at Cerro Negro and Santa Catalina) but do not stop. In the past, line C-3 stopped at the Santa Catalina stop, located on Calle Embajadores, but it stopped providing passenger service in 1991.

Madrid Metro

The district is crossed by one line:

1st line: it runs under the Avenida de la Albufera with seven stations within it: Puente de Vallecas, Nueva Numancia, Portazgo, Buenos Aires, Alto del Arenal, Miguel Hernández and Sierra de Guadalupe.

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