Vicálvaro is (19th) one of the 21 districts of Madrid, Community of Madrid, Spain, located in the east of the capital, 8 km from the city centre of Madrid and administratively divided into 4 neighbourhoods:
- Vicálvaro Historic Centre (19.1): 35,519 inhabitants (2023).
- Valdebernardo (19.2): 17,471 inhabitants (2023).
- Valderrivas (19.3): 17,760 inhabitants (2023).
- El Cañaveral (19.4): 13,054 inhabitants (2023).
It is bordered to the west by the district of Moratalaz (via the M-40 highway), to the north by the district of San Blas-Canillejas (via the M-40, the Canillejas to Vicálvaro highway, the R-3 radial highway and the Vicálvaro to Coslada highway), to the south by Puente de Vallecas and Villa de Vallecas (via the A-3 motorway) and to the east by the municipalities of Coslada, San Fernando de Henares and Rivas-Vaciamadrid.
The largest sepiolite deposit in the world is in Vicálvaro at the foot of the Almodóvar hill, where a rich deposit of carved flint tools from the Palaeolithic period, more than 200,000 years old, has been found.
It is currently the district of Madrid with the greatest prospects for population growth, since it is home to the urban developments of Los Berrocales and Los Ahijones (today included in the Casco Histórico neighbourhood) and Los Cerros (today in El Cañaveral).
Transport
There is only one station within the district, Vicálvaro, located to the east of the district next to Gran Vía del Este. Lines C-2, C-7 and C-8 of Cercanías Madrid pass through it. The station also serves as an interchange with the station named Puerta de Arganda, within line 9 of the Madrid Metro, and with lines 4, 71 and E3 of the EMT.
The district is connected by a single metro line:
Line 9: runs under the José Prat and Indalecio Prieto boulevards, Camino Viejo de Vicálvaro and Calle San Cipriano with four stations within it: Valdebernardo, Vicálvaro, San Cipriano and Puerta de Arganda.
Within the network of the Empresa Municipal de Transportes de Madrid, 15 lines serve neighbourhoods in this district.
Madrid: full guide
- Administrative structure
- Architecture
- Churches and Cathedrals
- Entertainment
- Monuments
- Museums
- Parks and gardens
- Restaurants
- Shopping and markets
- Squares
- Streets
- Transport
See here Pyrenees travel guide
See here France travel guide
See here Spain travel guide
