Móstoles
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About Móstoles
Móstoles is a municipality of Spain located in the Community of Madrid. With over 200,000 inhabitants, it is the region's second most populated municipality after Madrid. Móstoles was a small town for a long time, but expanded rapidly in the second half of the 20th century.
The city also hosts the main campus of the Rey Juan Carlos University.
The municipality presents a largely flat relief. The main hydrographic features are the Guadarrama river at the western end of the municipality and several of the latter's left bank tributary creeks, including the Arroyo del Soto and the Arroyo de los Combos.
Human beings have been present since the Paleolithic. Evidence of that fact are sites in which there are flint gravel and arrow tips.
Some traces of presence of Roman civilisation occur in the current municipality, specifically of the late period. They mainly consist of ceramic remains.
There is no evidence of a town in the current Móstoles during the Islamic rule era in Iberian Peninsula. However, there are some remains of this era in the territory.
It was founded most probably circa 1085–1137,...
Móstoles travel guide
Understand
The city is within the metropolitan area of Madrid, with an importan character of a commuter town, since it evolved from being a village in the last third of the 20th century of barely 4,000 inhabitants to one of the largest urban concentrations in the region. It has been gradually loosing its commuter town role thanks to the establishment of institutions such as the Rey Juan Carlos University, the IMDEA Energy research centre and the Dos de Mayo Art Centre (CA2M).
Getting there
By train The C-5 line of the Cercanías Madrid commuter rail network connects Móstoles directly with Alcorcón, Madrid, Leganés, Fuenlabrada and Humanes de Madrid. A trip from Madrid-Atocha station typically takes less than 30 minutes.
By bus Main bus routes from the multimodal Madrid Príncipe Pío station are: 521, 522, 524 and the night services N501 & N503.
By car Main highways that pass through Móstoles are Autovía A-5, the orbital motorway M-50, the radial motorway R-5 (tolled) and the regional road M-506.
By Metro The circle Line 12, also known as MetroSur links Móstoles with other suburban towns Alcorcón, Leganés, Getafe and Fuenlabrada.
Getting around
By train There are two train stations:
1 Móstoles-Central. On line C-5 of Cercanías Madrid and on line 12 of the Madrid Metro. (updated Mar 2024) 2 Móstoles-El Soto. Part of the Madrid Cercanías line C-5. Its fare corresponds to zone B2. (updated Mar 2024)
By bus The municipal bus network covers practically all areas of the city with six lines.
By Metro There are five MetroSur stations: Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Móstoles Central, Pradillo, Hospital de Móstoles and Manuela Malasaña.
See
The tourist office is located at the Pradillo square (Plaza del Pradillo) where you will find a wide range of information on maps, routes and the most iconic places to visit in the municipality.
1 CA2M Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo. This museum hosts the contemporary art collection of the Community of Madrid. The modern building was inaugurated in 2008 following a thorough refurbishment of the historical building that preserved the façade of a 19th-century building. It includes exhibition halls, a library, a roof terrace, an assembly hall and other spaces designed to host a wide range of activities, from film screenings to an urban horticultural garden workshop. Free. City Museum (Museo de la Ciudad). Located in one of the most unique historic buildings in Móstoles, a former Post house, the museum has been set up as a space in which to discover the city's history. Inside there is a scale model of the town from 1808. The museum also organises guided tours. Historic-House museum of Andrés Torrejón. An old house that has been converted into a house-museum around the figure of Andrés Torrejón, where you can discover the customs and habits of a home at the beginning of the 19th century. 2 Hermitage of Nuestra Señora de los Santos (Ermita de Nuestra Señora de los Santos), San Antonio street s/n, 28931. The hermitage was built in the 17th century on an old Rojas house. It was rebuilt under the orders of Cristóbal Rodríguez de Jarama, between 1680 and 1688.
Do
Theatre There is a local network of theatres with a varied programme the most iconic is the Teatro del Bosque.
Overview adapted from Wikipedia, travel guide fromWikivoyage (CC BY-SA)。Photography via Wikimedia Commons.