Metro Lines & Maps

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Madrid Metro Lines & Maps

When you look at a Madrid metro map, it looks a like a complicated labyrinth. Many lines connect and cross each other. There is a line known as a “circular” which, as the name denotes, runs in a circle. Part of the confusion about the metro maps and the seeming labyrinth look of the map is that the handicap symbols are next to connection stops. You can not tell which line or track has the lift. For instance, there is a three-line connection at Sol.

There is a lift on the southbound track of Line 1 but not the northbound track. The lift, most likely, is a result from connections made from other lines. Or, the lift is there for a southbound connection from Line 1 to another line. Callao stop appears the same way on the metro map. Line 5, lime grass line has a lift at the Callao stop. Line 3, yellow, intersects or connects with line 5 at this stop. There are 12 metro city lines. As mentioned before, the metro lines on a map are color-coded and when you’re figuring out which line to take, look at the line number and the end point of that line.

For example, if you want to go to Tribunal, which is geographically in the center of Madrid (not the city center where Puerta del Sol is), and you are in the Plaza de Espana area, you would take Line 10, the dark blue line. To determine which track, north or south, take the northbound track headed towards Hospital del Norte.