Costillares, also known as Pinar de Chamartín, is a neighborhood part of the

Ciudad Lineal Ciudad Lineal ( en, ital=no, Linear city) is a district of Madrid, Spain. Geography Wards The district is administratively divided into nine wards: * Atalaya * Colina * Concepción * Costillares * Pueblo Nuevo * Quintana * San Juan ...

district, in north

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, Spain.

Neighborhood

The neighborhood has 22,616 residents. It is named for a ''pinar'' (a small forest of

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s) near the larger district of Chamartín. The current-day neighborhood, however, is located within the district of

Station

The station is the terminus for Line 1, Line 4 and the

Metro Ligero The Metro Ligero (; "Light Metro") is a light rail system in Madrid, Spain. It has three lines, totaling , and 37 stations. Lines Line ML-1 Line ML-1 opened between Pinar de Chamartín and Las Tablas on 24 May 2007, with and nine stations, f ...

line 1. As the 1 is one of the most important lines in all of Madrid, the 4 serves the local area of

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, and the ML1 serves the nearby

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station in the new and expanding neighborhood of Sanchinarro, this station sees a high amount of traffic for being in a relatively low-population neighborhood far removed from the city center. The station appears in the movie ''

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'' and the neighborhood appears in the

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movie '' La cabina''.

References

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