Anda Madrid: Walking Towards a Greener Future in the Capital
The Six Routes of the Anda Madrid Initiative
The Urban Planning, Environment and Mobility Delegate, Mr Borja Carabante, presented an initiative to promote sustainable mobility.
Anda Madrid, a proposal with six iconic itineraries to explore the city on foot
The Anda Madrid map will be available on the municipal website, at tourist offices, district councils, and municipal facilities such as cultural centres, senior citizens’ centres, sports centres, and libraries.
Six walking routes are proposed with details of the approximate time it takes to reach the city's main points.
Information is provided on the locations where you can board the Madrid City Council's Líneas Cero buses free of charge 365 days a year.
All roads lead to Puerta del Sol. At least those of the six pedestrian routes make up the new sustainable mobility initiative designed by the Madrid City Council: Anda Madrid. The six routes start and end at Puerta del Sol or cross the iconic square that constitutes kilometre zero of all Spanish roads. A point in the capital that has been completely pedestrianised since August 2020, thus complying with one of the measures included in the Madrid 360 Environmental Sustainability Strategy to promote sustainable mobility.
Mr Borja Carabante, the Delegate for Urban Planning, the Environment and Mobility, presented this initiative on 17 September 2024 in Puerta del Sol. The Anda Madrid map shows the six routes along which Madrid citizens and tourists can explore the most emblematic spots in the capital. During the presentation, Carabante highlighted the fact that Madrid is the Spanish city with the highest number of journeys made on foot. This form of sustainable mobility accounts for almost one out of every three journeys, specifically 28%. This means that, on a working day, 3.7 million journeys are made in Madrid on foot, out of a total of 13 million journeys made on average every day.
The routes designed by the City Council connect the most emblematic points of the city from a tourist point of view, such as Cibeles, Puerta de Alcalá, Plaza de España, the Royal Palace or the Temple of Debod, with some of its green lungs (Retiro, Madrid Río, Fuente del Berro, Casa de Campo and Parque del Oeste), cultural and sporting venues (Conde Duque, WiZink Center, Teatros del Canal, the Railway Museum, Las Ventas and the Santiago Bernabéu stadium) and the main transport interchanges (Nuevos Ministerios, Atocha and Moncloa). In this respect, Carabante pointed out that Anda Madrid will help people discover the city on foot, which aligns with one of the essential objectives of the Madrid 360 Strategy: promoting sustainable mobility. He stressed that sustainable mobility along these routes is the best way of getting to know or revisiting all these sites.
The Anda Madrid map includes details of the distance between the different stages of each route, the locations, the average time it takes to walk from one point to another, as well as the routes of EMT Madrid lines 001 and 002 (Líneas Cero), free of charge 365 days a year. This way, map users can link their journeys with these buses.
The six routes that make up the Anda Madrid initiative are:
AM Route 1: Puerta del Sol-Cibeles-Plaza de Colón-Nuevos Ministerios-Santiago Bernabéu Stadium. Total: 83 minutes.
AM Route 2: Puerta del Sol-Cibeles-Puerta de Alcalá-WiZink Center-Las Ventas. Total: 62 minutes.
AM Route 3: Moncloa-Parque del Oeste-Temple of Debod-Plaza de España-Palacio Real-Puerta del Sol-Neptuno-Retiro-Ibiza-Parque Fuente del Berro-Palacio Real. Total: 124 minutes.
AM Route 4: Puerta del Sol-Neptuno-Atocha-Museo del Ferrocarril-Madrid Río (Matadero)-Madrid Río (Pirámides). Total: 105 minutes.
AM Route 5: Puerta del Sol-Tirso de Molina-Puerta de Toledo-Madrid Río (Pirámides)-Madrid Río (Puente del Rey)-Casa de Campo. Total: 95 minutes.
AM Route 6: Puerta del Sol-Gran Vía-Plaza de Olavide-Teatros del Canal-Cuatro Caminos. Total: 56 minutes.
The Anda Madrid map will be available on the municipal website, at tourist offices, district councils, and in municipal facilities such as cultural centres, senior citizens' centres, sports centres, and libraries.
Author: Ayuntamiento de Madrid (City Counsil of Madrid)