Un operario trabaja en la iluminación de la estación de Chamberí durante un rodaje.

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 city

06-02-2023

In the early 1950s, we saw the Pérez family travelling by metro to Lavapiés in Surcos. Seven decades later, Penélope Cruz and Luis Tosar, playing Azucena and Rafa, show us Usera and its station in En los márgenes. And it was also on the metro that María Pedraza received the most important call of her life in Las Niñas de Cristal, when she was chasing her dream of becoming a star just as Mi tío Jacinto had done in 1956, dressed in his bullfighter’s traje de luces.

Because to talk about Madrid means talking about its Metro. The one that is always there, that is part of the city and that is present in the lives of cats (locals), adopted Madrileans and tourists. Welcome to the biggest film set in Madrid: welcome to the Metro de Madrid podcast.

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