El Capricho
El Capricho is a station on Line 5 of the Madrid Metro. It is located in fare Zone A. The station is named after the Parque de El Capricho. There is a pedestrian route from the station to these gardens which were created by the Duchess of Osuna.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Draceane, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Metro station
- Description: Madrid Metro station
- Also known as: “El Capricho (L5)”
- Wheelchair access: yes
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Exedra and El Capricho Park.
Exedra
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
An exedra is a semicircular architectural recess or platform, sometimes crowned by a semi-dome, and either set into a building's façade or free-standing. Exedra is situated 370 metres northwest of El Capricho.
El Capricho Park
Park
Photo: Nemo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
El Capricho is a park in Madrid. The word capricho is Spanish for "whim" or "caprice". It was created by María Josefa Pimentel, Duchess of Osuna on her estate at Alameda de Osuna, which was then outside the city of Madrid.
Riyadh Air Metropolitano
Stadium
Photo: Fernandopascullo, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Metropolitano Stadium, also referred to as Riyadh Air Metropolitano Stadium for sponsorship reasons, is a football stadium in Madrid, located in the Rosas neighbourhood in the San Blas-Canillejas district. Riyadh Air Metropolitano is situated 2 km south of El Capricho.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ciudad Pegaso and Palomas.
Palomas
Quarter
Photo: Zaqarbal, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Palomas is a ward of Madrid, the capital city of Spain. The ward belongs to the district of Hortaleza.
Canillejas
Quarter
Photo: Malopez 21, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Canillejas is an administrative neighborhood of Madrid, belonging to the San Blas-Canillejas district. It is named after the former namesake municipality, absorbed by Madrid in 1949.
El Capricho
- Categories: underground station, railway station, station, and transportation
- Location: Barajas, Madrid, Madrid, Community of Madrid, Central Spain, Spain, Iberia, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.45338° or 40° 27′ 12″ northLongitude
-3.5942° or 3° 35′ 39″ westElevation
621 metres (2,037 feet)Operator
Metro de MadridNetwork
Madrid MetroOpen location code
8CGRFC34+98OpenStreetMap ID
node 5303127371OpenStreetMap feature
public_transport=stationOpenStreetMap feature
railway=stationOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=yes
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Spanish—“El Capricho” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “إل كابريكو”
- Catalan: “El Capricho”
- Dutch: “El Capricho”
- Esperanto: “El Capricho”
- French: “El Capricho”
- Galician: “El Capricho”
- German: “El Capricho”
- Hungarian: “El Capricho metróállomás”
- Hungarian: “El Capricho”
- Indonesian: “El Capricho”
- Irish: “El Capricho”
- Italian: “El Capricho”
- Korean: “엘 카프리초역”
- Lombard: “El Capricho”
- Occitan (post 1500): “El Capricho”
- Polish: “El Capricho”
- Portuguese: “El Capricho”
- Portuguese: “Estação El Capricho”
- Spanish: “El Capricho (Línea 5)”
- Spanish: “El Capricho”
- Spanish: “Estación de El Capricho”
- “El Capricho”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “El Capricho”. Photo: Draceane, CC BY-SA 4.0.