Madrid Unveils €751 Million Plan To Transform City In 2026

THE MADRID City Council is difficult astatine activity drafting nan 2026 projects for nan Spanish capital, and location are already immoderate breathtaking refurbishments and updates successful nan works, pinch a full eye-watering fund of €751 cardinal (the highest fig successful astir 2 decades). From nan famed and idyllic Retiro Park successful nan bosom of nan city, to a Barajas airdrome sprucing-up, adjacent twelvemonth will bring astir immoderate well-needed and breathtaking changes for Madrid residents and visitors.

The centre’s breathtaking caller projects

In nan centre of Madrid, respective squares will beryllium wholly remodelled. Namely, 1 of nan largest projects to beryllium undertaken is nan Jacinto Benavente Square, which will beryllium worked connected pinch a fund of astir €5 million, and will statesman successful nan very first 4th of 2026. Other squares to beryllium renovated see nan Rastrillo Square, pinch a comparably humble fund of €1.2 million, Chamberi, and Oporto.

Also successful nan centre, a societal use constitution will beryllium constructed astatine nan Palace of nan Duchess of Sueca. Additionally, €4 cardinal will beryllium invested into nan renewal of nan building astatine Prado 30, rehabilitating it into a taste centre.

The celebrated Retiro Park is besides owed for a polish: an full boulevard will beryllium constructed, connecting Cibeles pinch Puerta de Alcala. However, this task is being delayed to debar further postulation disruptions, arsenic it is simply a highly traversed area of nan city.

The largest task successful nan centre, pinch a whopping €32.2 cardinal budget, is successful nan Legazpi Fruit and Vegetable Market, which will beryllium made into a analyzable wherever nan City Council will unify respective municipal offices.

Other, various constructions and refurbishments for Madrid’s citizens

Works are to beryllium carried retired connected nan pedestrianisation of nan historical centre of Barajas and nan urbanisation of nan Gran Via del Sureste, located successful Ensanche de Vallecas. A footbridge will besides beryllium constructed for pedestrians and cyclists that will nexus nan Arganzuela territory pinch that of Carabanchel, for much than 1 cardinal euros.

The Latina neighbourhood of Madrid will spot nan undergrounding of nan A-5 motorway, group to beryllium completed successful November 2026. This year, nan City Council has allocated a fund of €158.2 cardinal to nan project, called nan Southwest Green Promenade.

In Carabanchel Bajo, nan aged municipality will beryllium wholly remodelled astatine a costs of €1.3 million. Work will beryllium carried retired successful nan Plaza de Oporto and its surroundings, pinch an finance of €2.5 million.

Some projects, including nan refurbishment of nan Ventas Park and nan Castellana Park, and nan caller Parque Europa Senior Center successful Latina are owed to beryllium completed successful 2026.

Works will unify nan Spanish capital

These are conscionable immoderate of nan useful being carried retired each crossed nan city. Next twelvemonth will spot galore areas of Madrid receiving caller projects, works, and refurbishments, to animate tourism and amended nan value of life of Madrid residents.

Deputy Mayor of Madrid and municipal spokesperson, Inmaculada Sanz, has stated that nan useful planned for adjacent twelvemonth are system astir 4 cardinal ideas: “economic strength, societal sensitivity, improved value of life, and territorial cohesion.”

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