Acacias is a station on line 5 of the

Madrid Metro The Madrid Metro (Spanish: ''Metro de Madrid'') is a rapid transit system serving the city of Madrid, capital of Spain. The system is the 14th longest rapid transit system in the world, with a total length of . Its growth between 1995 and 200 ...

. It's named after Paseo de las Acacias, "

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s Walk"). It is located in fare Zone A. The station offers connection to the Embajadores metro station and Cercanías station.

History

On 5 June 1968 the first section of line 5 was opened between Carabanchel and Callao, including Acacias station, which was joined to Embajadores station by means of a corridor to allow a transfer with line 3 and the Cercanías line C-5.

References

Line 5 (Madrid Metro) stations {{Madrid-metro-stub