Paco de Lucía station completes extension of
Line 9 of the
Madrid Metro
The Madrid Metro (Spanish: ''Metro de Madrid'') is a rapid transit system serving the city of Madrid, capital of Spain. The system is the 14th longest rapid transit system in the world, with a total length of 293 km (182 mi). Its gro ...
. It is located in fare Zone A and brings Metro to 50.000 new potential users. It opened on 25 March 2015, at the time making it station 301 of the Metro Madrid network. While the station's name was originally supposed to be Costa Brava, it is now named after Spanish musician and guitarist
Paco de Lucía
Francisco Sánchez Gómez (21 December 194725 February 2014), known as Paco de Lucía (;), was a Spanish virtuoso flamenco guitarist, composer, and record producer. A leading proponent of the new flamenco style, he was one of the first flame ...
, a former resident of the district the station is located in, who died in 2014.
The new station also has a special feature that makes it unique in Spain with it being the first Metro station decorated with street art, specifically a great 300-square metre mural showing the face of the man it was named after. Street artists Okuda and Rosh333, with the cooperation of architect Antonyo Marest, under the supervision of Madrid Street Art Project, were responsible for creating the impressive work of art, which presides over the forecourt of the new station.
The homonymous station of
Cercanías Madrid
Cercanías Madrid is the commuter rail service that serves Madrid, the capital of Spain, and its metropolitan area. It is operated by Cercanías Renfe, the commuter rail division of Renfe, the former monopoly of rail services in Spain. Its to ...
, built by Adif above the Metro station, was inaugurated on 5 February 2018.
It allows connection with lines
C-3,
C-7 and
C-8.
File:Metro de Madrid - Paco de Lucía 02.jpg, Interior of the station with artworks
File:Estación de Cercanías de Mirasierra-Paco de Lucía 02.jpg, Access to the Cercanías
The commuter rail systems of Spain's major metropolitan areas are called ''Cercanías'' () in most of Spain, ''Rodalia'' () in the Valencian Community, ''Aldiriak'' () in the Basque Country and ''Rodalies'' () in Catalonia. There are twelve ''Ce ...
References
Line 9 (Madrid Metro) stations
Railway stations in Spain opened in 2015
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