Costillares (Madrid)

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Costillares
Ward of Madrid
Edficios de Pinar de Chamartín (Costillares) o de la calle Caleruega, desde el nudo de la M-11 con la M-30.jpg
CountrySpain
Autonomous communityMadrid
MunicipalityMadrid
DistrictCiudad Lineal

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 larger district of Chamartín. The current-day neighborhood, however, is located within the district of Ciudad Lineal.

Station[]

The station is the terminus for Line 1, Line 4 and the Metro Ligero line 1. As the 1 is one of the most important lines in all of Madrid, the 4 serves the local area of Hortaleza, and the ML1 serves the nearby Cercanías station in the new and expanding neighborhood of , 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 Doctor Zhivago and the neighborhood appears in the Spanish-language movie La cabina.

References[]

Coordinates: 40°28′28″N 3°40′11″W / 40.4744°N 3.6697°W / 40.4744; -3.6697

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