The Community of Madrid introduces new signage in Metro stations to provide information on libraries, museums and other centres of interest
With the goal of improving information for passengers and highlighting the region's intangible heritage. The underground has changed the signs at Puerta de Toledo and La Latina, which now indicate the exit to El Rastro, the emblematic open-air market since 1740. This initiative is part of an effort to improve the user experience and facilitate orientation for both residents and visitors.
The Community of Madrid has unveiled new signage in some of the most emblematic Metro de Madrid stations to indicate points of interest to passengers, be they for leisure, cultural or historical, and as a way of promoting the region's intangible heritage.
The launch of the new signs is part of the goal of improving the user experience and facilitating orientation, both for residents and visitors, at a time when the latter are registering record figures.
Recent examples of these additions are the Estación del Arte, to reach the Cuesta de Moyano fixed book fair; Delicias, with indications of the El Águila Complex, the Regional Library and the Regional Archive and Moncloa, with the Neomudéjar Museum, among others.
Puerta de Toledo also has new signs indicating the direction of El Rastro, the emblematic open-air market that has been held in the capital every Sunday since 1740. Similarly, the metropolitan company has incorporated similar signs in La Latina, so that users have this information available at the two main access points.
This site, which is located in one of the neuralgic hubs of the capital due to its communication with the Centre and Arganzuela districts, had already been chosen as the location for an exhibition showing the influence of this market on the Movida Madrileña. With a mural by Guillermo Pérez Villalta, called Personajes a la salida de un concierto de rock (Characters leaving a rock concert), this proposal invites viewers to visit an urban space which, at the end of the 1970s and beginning of the 1980s, was the stage where new artists exhibited and filmed their creations.
La Latina, meanwhile, also has its walls covered with historical and contemporary photos by photographers José Luis Mur, César Lucas, Eduardo Dea, Miguel Ángel Sintes and Luis Martí, well known in their industry because for years, they have immortalised emblematic moments of the old Madrid market.
