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Ciudad Universitaria | |
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Country | Spain |
Region | Community of Madrid |
Municipality | Madrid |
District | Moncloa-Aravaca |
Ciudad Universitaria is an administrative neighborhood (barrio) of Madrid [1] belonging to the district of Moncloa-Aravaca. It is served by Ciudad Universitaria (Madrid Metro) from 1987. [2]
It contains and is named after the University City of Madrid (Ciudad Universitaria de Madrid), a complex that is home to several universities and various research organizations, including:
The Complutense University of Madrid is a public research university located in Madrid. Founded in Alcalá in 1293, it is one of the oldest operating universities in the world, and one of Spain's most prestigious institutions of higher learning. It is located on a sprawling campus that occupies the entirety of the Ciudad Universitaria district of Madrid, with annexes in the district of Somosaguas in the neighboring city of Pozuelo de Alarcón. It is named after the ancient Roman settlement of Complutum, now an archeological site in Alcalá de Henares, just east of Madrid.
Universidad is a station on the Mexico City Metro. It is located in the southern reaches of Mexico City, in Coyoacán borough. A surface station, it is the current terminus of Line 3. The station was opened on 30 August 1983. In 2021, the station had an average ridership of 25,858 passengers per day, making it the fifteenth busiest station in the network.
Miguel Ángel de Quevedo is a station along Line 3 of the Mexico City Metro. It is located in Mexico City's southern Coyoacán borough, at the junction of Avenida Miguel Ángel de Quevedo and Avenida Universidad.
The Technical University of Madrid or sometimes called Polytechnic University of Madrid is a public university, located in Madrid, Spain. It was founded in 1971 as the result of merging different Technical Schools of Engineering and Architecture, originating mainly in the 18th century. Over 35,000 students attend classes during the year.
The Olympic Stadium is a multi-purpose stadium located inside Ciudad Universitaria in Mexico City. It was built in 1952 and at that time was the largest stadium in Mexico. This stadium has a capacity of 69,000. The first major event held in the stadium was the 1955 Pan American Games. During the 1950s and the 1960s this stadium was used mostly for college American football matches between the largest Mexican public universities at the time: UNAM and IPN. From the late 1950s it was used for football matches, some American football matches and athletics. American architect Frank Lloyd Wright called it "the most important building in the modern America".
Colonia Roma, also called La Roma or simply, Roma, is a district located in the Cuauhtémoc borough of Mexico City just west of the city's historic center. The area comprises two colonias: Roma Norte and Roma Sur, divided by Coahuila street.
Line 6 of the Madrid Metro opened originally between Cuatro Caminos and Pacifico in 1979. This is one of two circular lines in Madrid, but unlike Line 12, it did not open as a full circle. The circle was completed in 1995, taking four stages from its original opening. It has a length of 23.5 km (14.6 mi) and is coloured grey on route maps.
Moncloa-Aravaca is a district of the municipality of Madrid, Spain. It is located to the northwest of the city centre, spanning across both banks of the Manzanares. It is made up of the neighborhoods of Aravaca, Argüelles, Casa de Campo, Ciudad Universitaria, El Plantío, Valdemarín and Valdezarza.
CEU San Pablo University is a private Catholic university located in Madrid, Spain, with Campuses in Moncloa, Madrid, right next to the Constitutional Court of Spain, and in Montepríncipe, Alcorcón. It is run by the Centro de Estudios Universitarios, established by Asociación Católica de Propagandistas (ACdP) with the goal of making positive changes in society through educational centres, which offer a model based on a holistic understanding of the human person and work in the public arena in defense of justice and human beings.
Madrid is the capital and most populous municipality of Spain. It has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 7 million. It is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), and its monocentric metropolitan area is the second-largest in the EU. The municipality covers 604.3 km2 (233.3 sq mi) geographical area. Madrid lies on the River Manzanares in the central part of the Iberian Peninsula at about 650 meters above mean sea level. The capital city of both Spain and the surrounding autonomous community of Madrid, it is also the political, economic, and cultural centre of the country. The climate of Madrid features hot summers and cool winters. The primitive core of Madrid, a walled military outpost, dates back to the late 9th century, under the Emirate of Córdoba. Conquered by Christians in 1083 or 1085, it consolidated in the Late Middle Ages as a sizeable town of the Crown of Castile. The development of Madrid as administrative centre fostered after 1561, as it became the permanent seat of the court of the Hispanic Monarchy.
Cuatro Caminos is a station on Line 1, Line 2 and Line 6 of the Madrid Metro, located underneath the Cuatro Caminos roundabout on the border of Chamberí and Tetuán districts in Madrid. It is located in fare Zone A. The station was inaugurated on 17 October 1919, and was opened to the public on 31 October 1919.
Argüelles is a station on Line 3, Line 4, and Line 6 of the Madrid Metro in Madrid, Spain. It is located underneath the intersection of Princesa and Marqués de Urquijo streets, between the districts of Moncloa-Aravaca and Chamberí, in fare Zone A. The station is named after the neighborhood of Argüelles, which is in turn named after the 19th century Spanish politician Agustín Argüelles.
Moncloa is a multimodal station in Madrid, Spain that serves Madrid Metro Line 3 and Line 6, as well as city buses and intercity and long-distance coaches. It is located underneath the Plaza De Moncloa and Calle de la Princesa near Arco de la Victoria and the headquarters of the Spanish Air and Space Force in fare Zone A.
Ciudad Universitaria is a station on Line 6 of the Madrid Metro, located beneath Complutense avenue in the Ciudad Universitaria ward in the Moncloa-Aravaca district in fare Zone A. It is named after the Ciudad Universitaria, which is home to the Complutense University of Madrid, the Technical University of Madrid, and the National University of Distance Education. The station's platforms feature tilework representing the bear and the strawberry tree, which is a symbol of Madrid. The station is located next to the Ciudad Universitaria underground train storage depot, where most of Line 6's 5000 series trains are stored.
Vicente Aleixandre is a station on Line 6 of the Madrid Metro, located beneath Gregorio del Amo avenue in the Moncloa-Aravaca district in fare Zone A, although one of its exits is located in the Chamberí district. It is named after the Spanish poet Vicente Aleixandre (1898–1984).
Guzmán el Bueno is a station on Line 6 and Line 7 of the Madrid Metro located underneath the Avenida de la Reina Victoria between the neighborhoods of Vallehermoso in Chamberí district and Ciudad Universitaria in Moncloa-Aravaca district in Madrid. It is in fare Zone A. The station was named after the Calle de Guzmán el Bueno, which is named for the medieval Spanish nobleman Alonso Pérez de Guzmán (1256–1309), known as Guzmán el Bueno.
Puerta del Ángel is a station on Line 6, located beneath the Paseo de Extremadura near the Puente de Segovia in the barrio of Puerta del Ángel. It is located in fare Zone A. The station is named after the Puerta del Ángel neighborhood, which is in turn named after a former access gate to the Casa de Campo park.
Ciudad Universitaria is a Caracas Metro station on Line 3. It was opened on 18 December 1994 as part of the inaugural section of Line 3 from Plaza Venezuela to El Valle. The station is between Plaza Venezuela and Los Símbolos.
The Hospital Clínico San Carlos is a hospital located at the Ciudad Universitaria neighborhood in Madrid, Spain, part of hospital network of the Servicio Madrileño de Salud (SERMAS).
Ciudad Universitaria is an urban campus of the University of Buenos Aires, the largest and most prestigious university in Argentina. Originally designed as a potential centralized campus for all of the university's facilities, nowadays it only houses two of its thirteen faculties: the Faculty of Architecture, Design and Urbanism and the Faculty of Exact and Natural Sciences, as well as a number of dependent institutes and a sports center.