Paco de Lucía (Madrid Metro)

Paco de Lucía station completes extension of Line 9 of the Madrid Metro. It is located in fare Zone A[1] and brings Metro to 50.000 new potential users. It opened on 25 March 2015,[2] at the time making it station 301 of the Metro Madrid network. While the station's name was originally supposed to be Costa Brava, it is now named after Spanish musician and guitarist Paco de Lucía, a former resident of the district the station is located in, who died in 2014.[3]

Paco de Lucía
Madrid Metro station
Entrance
Location	Fuencarral-El Pardo, Madrid Spain
Coordinates	40.4995522°N 3.709039°W
Owned by	CRTM
Operated by	CRTM
Construction
Disabled access	Yes
Other information
Fare zone	A
History
Opened	25 March 2015
Services
Preceding station   Madrid Metro   Following station Terminus Line 9 Mirasierra toward Arganda del Rey   Out of system interchange   Preceding station   Cercanías Madrid   Following station Pitis toward Chamartín C-3 Ramon y Cajal toward Aranjuez Pitis toward Príncipe Pío C-7 Ramon y Cajal toward Alcalá de Henares Pitis toward Cercedilla C-8 Ramon y Cajal toward Guadalajara
Location
Paco de Lucía Location within Madrid

The new station also has a special feature that makes it unique in Spain with it being the first Metro station decorated with street art, specifically a great 300-square metre mural showing the face of the man it was named after. Street artists Okuda and Rosh333, with the cooperation of architect Antonyo Marest, under the supervision of Madrid Street Art Project, were responsible for creating the impressive work of art, which presides over the forecourt of the new station.

The homonymous station of Cercanías Madrid, built by Adif above the Metro station, was inaugurated on 5 February 2018.[4] It allows connection with lines C-3, C-7 and C-8.

Interior of the station with artworks

Access to the Cercanías

References

1. "Línea 9". Metro de Madrid. Retrieved 1 August 2019.
2. Barroso, F. Javier (26 March 2015). "Metro abre la estación de Paco de Lucía en el barrio de Mirasierra" (in Spanish). El País. ISSN 1134-6582. Retrieved 1 August 2019.
3. "Paco de Lucía dará nombre a una estación de Metro". europapress.es (in Spanish). 27 February 2014. Retrieved 4 February 2020.
4. "La estación de Cercanías Mirasierra-Paco de Lucía, en servicio desde este martes". telemadrid.es (in Spanish). 5 February 2018. Retrieved 5 February 2018.