Menéndez Pelayo station goes back in time
Did you know that, in the old days, Metro used ornamental 'lampposts' as signposts?
New back-to-school podcast: school visits to the Metro
Another way of seeing the Metro through a child’s eyes.
Technology at the service of the users who need it most
Discover NaviLens, the easiest way to find your way around Metro facilities
A microwave in the underground?
Incredible, but true. A user entered Metro with a microwave and forgot it on one of its platforms. Among the more than 60,000 lost objects found every year in the...
Do you know which was the first lift to be installed in Metro de Madrid?
The one on Gran Vía! We will tell you what it was like, how much it cost to use and how it worked
Station of the month: Valdezarza
We continue our monthly tour of Metro stations and this time we reach Valdezarza, on line 7. A station that stands out for its large openings, like skylights, which allow...
Well, there may be no beach here, but there are plenty of parks to escape the high temperatures.
Is it really hot out? Are you looking for shelter from the sun? Our suggestion is to go to some of the most beautiful and verdant parks in Madrid.
Lines with art: Line 6, a route from university murals to "Planeta Arganzuela", through the Miocene of Carpetana
You already know that at Crazy About Metro we love art and, for this reason, today we propose a little journey through some of the most precious treasures of our...
New Podcast: This is how we prepare for the summer's great plans
Summer is coming, the season of events, concerts and outdoor plans. We gain light hours and life in a city like Madrid, which never sleeps, intensifies: Madcool, MADO, concerts, block...
Comfortable, fast and technologically renovated, this is what the new Metro Line 1 will be like
Discover all the keys to this summer's actions
The station of the month: Cuatro Caminos, Lines 1, 2 and 6
The recently refurbished Cuatro Caminos station is one of the most historic in the Metro network. Why not come and check it out yourself?
The way we were, the way we are: the Command Post
Metro has a brain, the Central Control Post. Today, it controls the traffic of more than 300 stations and integrates the security, surveillance, energy management and passenger information systems of...
The Laguna Metro station celebrates its 40th anniversary
This veteran station celebrates its anniversary with the unveiling of the mural in its hall after the artist Eladio García Santibáñez had been working on its restoration for the last...
The sound map of Metro
A trip through the sounds and voices of Madrid's suburbs
On Museum Day, we take you on a tour
Happy Museum Day! On such a special day, we encourage you to visit some of Madrid's main museums by metro.
100 years of Metro at Vallecas
It's our birthday!!! And a very special one: this week marks 100 years since the arrival of Metro to Vallecas. A milestone for Metro, which for the first time left...
The 'predecessor’ Draisine, pioneers of our 'crazy contraption' railway support vehicles
The first Metro rail support vehicles were introduced a long time ago; interesting contraptions known as draisines whose main purpose were to transport the personnel and material necessary for the...
The station of the month: Mar de Cristal, on L4
Madrid does not have a beach, but it does have a sea and not just any sea: a sea of glass, where the metro arrived 25 years ago. Want to...
New Podcast: A very literary Metro
This week we celebrate Book Day and we invite you to listen to a new episode of our podcast, in which we talk to readers and writers and review Metro's...
Metrosur celebrates its 20th anniversary
Metro Line 12 celebrated its anniversary with gifts for early risers
Chamberí museums and the Nave de Motores become teenagers
If there are two easily recognisable Metro icons, they are Chamberí station and the Nave de Motores de Pacífico, which are currently celebrating the 15th anniversary of their conversion into...
The station of the month: Lavapiés, on L3
If there is a neighbourhood in Madrid that is both traditional and a crossroads of cultures, it is Lavapiés. A neighbourhood with a lot of history, like its Metro station.
Lines with art: Line 5. The Metro's great muralists travel on the green line with Mingote and Lina Morgan
Santibáñez, Ángel Atienza and Esther García Ocampo, three of the artists who have left the greatest mark on the Metro de Madrid network, come together on a line that runs...
Metro is a woman: a journey towards equality
We commemorate Women's Day with a new chapter of the Metro de Madrid podcast
The station of the month: La Elipa, on L2
Discover how Metro got to one of Madrid's most historic neighbourhoods
That's how we were, that's how we are now. The computer revolution: from the stencil and the gondola phone to the Y2K, and without a mouse!
103 years ago, when Metro de Madrid began its journey, it is not that computers did not exist, it is just that the closest thing to a computer scientist walking...
Our 'crazy gadgets', a tour of Metro's most extravagant, unknown and useful vehicles
You've seen so much of Metro that you may well think you've seen it all. Of course. We're sorry to tell you that you're probably wrong... Not only have you...
Welcome to the biggest film set in Madrid: welcome to the Metro de Madrid podcast
To talk about Madrid is to talk about its Metro. And to talk about film is also to talk about Metro de Madrid, one of the biggest film sets in...
The station of the month: Miguel Hernández, in L1
We are starting a new section to continue telling you curiosities and anecdotes about the Metro. And we start with Miguel Hernández station, on line 1. History, curiosities and travellers'...
Advertising travels by Metro
From the legendary 'Metro de Madrid, vuela' (Metro de Madrid, flies) to the latest commercials filmed in the network
Want to enjoy Madrid? You're in luck, because the new Metro tourism map is here!
Madrid tourism lovers, you're in luck! Metro de Madrid's new tourism map is now available, with 127 cultural, leisure, sporting and shopping attractions that you can reach by Metro to...
Lines with art: Line 4, eclecticism from West to East
We continue to explore hidden pieces of art in the Madrid metro. Today it is the turn of L4, which runs from Argüelles to Pinar de Chamartín
Metro reinforces its service to welcome the Three Kings
The underground will increase the number of trains by up to 68.8% on the afternoon of 5 January
We are changing the closing and opening times on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and New Year's Day
This festive season we are changing our closing and opening times on Christmas Eve, Christmas Day and New Year's Day and increasing the train service by up to 50%.
The campaign ‘On track with you’ returns to Metro for Christmas
Once again this year, we are launching the solidarity campaign ‘Estamos en línea contigo’ (On track with you), through which Metro offers advertising space to twelve social organisations.
It's already Christmas at Metro!
Here's the new podcast, which you can use to get around Metro over the festive season
Hop on Metro's Christmas Train
Everyone at the Nativity Scene, the Three Wise Men, Christmas trees, musical notes... discover this year's train decorations
Lines with art: L3, a stroll through starry skies, key works of literature and striking mosaics
Don't miss this tour that will enable you to discover the details and interesting facts of the artistic treasures that are scattered all along line 3.
Come and see, the most unusual Madrid arrives by Metro!
Madrid is full of surprising places and hidden treasures waiting to be discovered by the most adventurous minds. Today we propose a your to discover these small wonders which, of...
Metro's scientific symbols uncovered
It's time to bring out our scientific and technological Sunday best! Once again this year, Metro joins Science and Innovation Week to offer a series of informative activities about our...
It’s all in a name? Palos de Moguer, Palos de la Frontera - which is it?
What a story! Some chroniclers get muddled and make a mistake, causing confusion for more than 300 years, forcing a change in the name of a street and the name...
New Podcast! Have a frightening time with the spookiest of stories about the Metro de Madrid
A train moves slowly through the tunnel. There are no passengers on board, no voices, no laughter. If you let it go, you’ll flee the fear, but if you jump...
Join us on a journey back in time to 1919 Madrid...without leaving 2022!
This week Madrid Metro celebrated its 103rd anniversary, which encourages us to not only remember the history of the company, but also the history of the city of Madrid itself...
That's how we were, that's how we are now: 103 years of Metro's history in #PodcastMetro
We are 103 years old, but we feel very, very young!! October is a very special month for Metro de Madrid... it's our birthday month and on this occasion, we...
Metro, a great film set under your feet
As soon as they arrive in Madrid, the Pérez family travel by metro to Lavapiés in the brilliant Surcos (José Antonio Nieves Conde, 1951), one of the first films to...
Thank you, heroes!
In this great underground city that is the Metro, an army of heroes "patrols" every day. You may not realise it, because they don't wear capes or have superpowers, but...
Lines with art: Line 2, a mix of styles and even an underground archaeological museum
From Alsace to Santo Domingo via Seville, Line 2 invites you to on a journey in Spain and beyond.
We are making Metro quite green (and II)
A few weeks ago, we told you about some of the environmental measures we are implementing that are making us green. Remember: Travelling with Metro pollutes 4 times less than...
Historic feats in the heart of Metro
We are celebrating the 500th anniversary of the first circumnavigation of the planet, captained by Ferdinand Magellan and Juan Sebastian Elcano: an extraordinary feat that changed the known world. The...