The Madrid Metro stations are renewed inside and also in their names, in this way the metro plan will include renamed stations and a new stop. The stations that will change their nomenclature as of December 1 are Atocha and Metropolitano. The changes will force the website, the signage and also the new Metro pocket plans to vary, the estimated cost of the changes has not transpired.
The Metropolitano and Atocha Metro stations change their names this Saturday to Vicente Aleixandre and Estación del Arte
The work to change the names and signage of the stations themselves will begin the night of Friday to Saturday (outside service hours) and will be completed before the service opens to passengers. As of Saturday, December 1, the rest of the work will continue, which affects the signage of the entire network and that of the trains themselves.
Surrounded by museums: Art Station
, in clear recognition of the area with the most museums in the capital. The Reina Sofía, El Prado and Thyssen-Bornemisza museums are concentrated in the same area as this metro station, and you will also avoid confusion with Atocha Renfe.
Atocha station was inaugurated in 1921, the change to Estación del Arte will make it easier to more clearly associate the name of the station with the three main museums of Madrid that are located nearby. Garrido stressed that the new name “will also be reinforced by the possible future entry of the Paseo del Prado and Buen Retiro on the UNESCO World Heritage list.”
The president recalled that there is also an agreement with these museums by which the 36 main works of these art galleries are reproduced in the Metro station and by which Youth Pass users also have discounts to visit these museums.
Metro honors Vicente Alexaindre
There will also be changes on line 6 of the metro. The Metropolitano station will be renamed Vicente Alexaindre and thus there will be no possible confusion with the Wanda Metropolitano stadium stop (Estadio Metropolitano station, on line 7). In addition, Vicente Aleixandre, Nobel Prize for Literature in 1977, who lived in the surroundings of the station for many years, is recognized.
The president of the Community, Ángel Garrido, accompanied by the Minister of Transport, Rosalía Gonzalo, and the author’s niece Amaya Aleixandre presented this Wednesday the changes in the station that will bear the name of “one of the best Spanish poets of all times”, which will also be decorated with a poem and a biographical review
As explained by the regional leader, inaugurated in 1987, said station located in an area of colleges for university students, the change from Metropolitano to Vicente Aleixandre will avoid the confusion that exists with the name of the Estadio Metropolitano station, in the Line 7. “Something is difficult for me to admit because I am a recognized athlete but that as president of the Community I logically had to consider,” he joked. With this change, we want to pay tribute to one of the “most extraordinary and innovative authors of the language, not only for mastering the language but for having also been a teacher of poets.”
In this sense, he recalled that Velintonia, the author’s house, will be declared a Site for Cultural Memory, “a category of guardianship that has been included in the new Historical Heritage Law.”
The author’s niece was grateful for the idea and precisely because it was at a station where many students pass through, “young people who do not know the figure of Aleixandre and who from now on will be able to know who he has been.” “It will help them to get closer to his person and his work”, she has stated.
The Metro network expands
The Metro de Madrid map continues to grow and a new station is expected to be added to the 301 already available in the first quarter of 2019. The new Arroyo Fresno stop joins line 7, which is currently under construction and it is estimated that it will serve the 22,000 residents of the northwestern neighborhoods of Madrid.
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