Pinar de Chamartín is a station on 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 ...
, opened to the public on 4 November, 2007. It is located in fare Zone A and serves the area of
Pinar de Chamartín
Costillares, also known as Pinar de Chamartín, is a neighborhood part of the Ciudad Lineal district, in north Madrid, Spain.
Neighborhood
The neighborhood has 22,616 residents. It is named for a ''pinar'' (a small forest of pine trees) near the ...
.
The station is the terminus for
Line 1 Line 1 or 1 line may refer to:
Public transport Africa
* Line 1 (Algiers Metro), Algeria
* Cairo Metro Line 1, Egypt
Asia China
* Line 1 (Beijing Subway)
* Line 1 (Changchun Rail Transit)
* Line 1 (Changsha Metro)
* Line 1 (Changzhou Metro)
* L ...
,
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 Line 1 is one of the most important lines in Madrid, Line 4 serves the local area of
Hortaleza
Hortaleza is one of the 21 districts of the city of Madrid, Spain.
History
Origin
The first recorded human activity in the area of Hortaleza was the existence of a nomadic or semi-nomadic population in the Paleolithic and Neolithic eras, ...
, and the ML1 serves the nearby
Cercanías station in the new and expanding neighborhood of
Sanchinarro, the station sees a high amount of traffic for being in a relatively low-population neighborhood far removed from the city center.
There's a tramway exhibited in the station, as a tribute to the old Madrid tramway (the new tramway system is the Metro Ligero). This tramway appears in the movie ''
Doctor Zhivago
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Description
The story, in all of its forms, describes the life of the fictional Russian physician and poet Yuri Zhivago and deals with love and loss during ...
'' and the neighborhood appears in the
Spanish-language
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movie ''
La cabina
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''.
References
Madrid Metro stations located underground
Line 1 (Madrid Metro) stations
Line 4 (Madrid Metro) stations
Railway stations in Spain opened in 2007
Madrid Metro Ligero stations
Buildings and structures in Ciudad Lineal District, Madrid
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