Sainz de Baranda (Madrid Metro)

Madrid Metro station

Preceding station	Madrid Metro			Following station
Conde de Casal clockwise / outer		Line 6		O'Donnell anticlockwise / inner
Ibiza towards Paco de Lucía		Line 9		Estrella towards Arganda del Rey

Location
Sainz de Baranda Location within Madrid

Sainz de Baranda [ˈsajnθ ðe βaˈɾanda] is a station on Line 6 and Line 9 of the Madrid Metro, located at the intersection of Doctor Esquerdo and Alcalde Sainz de Baranda streets in the Retiro district in Madrid, Spain. It is located in fare Zone A.^[1]^[2] The station is named after the street, which in turn is named after the first mayor of Madrid, Pedro Sainz de Baranda [es].

The station opened on 10 October 1979 when the first section of Line 6 was inaugurated.^[3] On 31 January 1980, the first section of Line 9 was opened from Pavones to Sainz de Baranda, where it connected to the rest of the Madrid Metro network.^[4]^[5] It ceased to be a terminus station when Line 9 was extended to Avenida de América on 24 February 1986.^[6]^[7]

References

^ "Línea 6 Circular". Metro de Madrid. Retrieved 5 September 2019.
^ "Línea 9". Metro de Madrid. Retrieved 1 August 2019.
^ "El Rey inauguró la nueva línea de Metro entre Pacífico y Cuatro Caminos" [King inaugurates new Metro line between Pacífico and Cuatro Caminos]. El País (in Spanish). Madrid, Spain. 11 October 1979. Retrieved 29 July 2017.
^ "Moratalaz inaugura hoy su metro" [Mortalaz inaugurates its metro today]. ABC (in Spanish). 30 January 1980. Retrieved 7 March 2014.
^ "Moratalaz festeja la llegada del Metro" [Mortalaz celebrates Metro's arrival]. El País (in Spanish). 31 January 1980. Retrieved 7 March 2014.
^ "La nueva 9" [The new 9]. ABC (Press release) (in Spanish). 23 February 1986. Retrieved 5 March 2014.
^ "Inaugurado el tramo del 'metro' que completa la línea 9" [New 'metro' stretch inaugurated, completing line 9]. El País (in Spanish). 25 February 1986. Retrieved 7 March 2014.