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.
Wikipedia
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  • Type: Metro station
  • Description: Madrid Metro station
  • Also known as: “El Capricho (L5)”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Exedra and Riyadh Air Metropolitano.

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
An is a semicircular architectural recess or platform, sometimes crowned by a semi-dome, and either set into a building's façade or free-standing. is situated 370 metres northwest of El Capricho.

Stadium
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The Metropolitano Stadium, officially referred to as Stadium due to sponsorship, is a football stadium in , located in the neighbourhood in the district. is situated 2 km south of El Capricho.

Castle
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is a castle, which is situated 380 metres north of El Capricho.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ciudad Pegaso and Palomas.

Neighborhood
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is a neighborhood.

Quarter
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is a ward of , the capital city of . The ward belongs to the district of .

Quarter
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is an administrative neighborhood of , belonging to the district. It is named after the former namesake municipality, absorbed by Madrid in 1949.

El Capricho

Latitude
40.45338° or 40° 27′ 12″ north
Longitude
-3.5942° or 3° 35′ 39″ west
Elevation
621 metres (2,037 feet)
Wheelchair access
yes
Operator
Metro de Madrid
Network
Madrid Metro
Open location code
8CGRFC34+98
Open­Street­Map ID
node 5303127371
Open­Street­Map feature
public_transport=­station
Open­Street­Map feature
railway=­station
Geo­Names ID
6941715
Wiki­data ID
Q2056510
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Spanish—“El Capricho” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “إل كابريكو”
  • Catalan: “El Capricho”
  • Chinese: “埃爾卡普里喬站”
  • 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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