Canillejas is an administrative

neighborhood A neighbourhood (Commonwealth English) or neighborhood (American English) is a geographically localized community within a larger town, city, suburb or rural area, sometimes consisting of a single street and the buildings lining it. Neigh ...

(''barrio'') of

Madrid Madrid ( ; ) is the capital and List of largest cities in Spain, most populous municipality of Spain. It has almost 3.5 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 7 million. It i ...

, belonging to the San Blas-Canillejas district. It is named after the former namesake

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, absorbed by Madrid in 1949. It has an area of . As of 1 March 2020, it has a population of 29,288.

Overview

Canillejas is a middle class area and is close to the Barajas Airport. It has grown extensively in recent decades. It was the last suburb before reaching the Campos (countryside), but has since been flanked by new growth. Heading towards the center of the city, its main street becomes the Calle De Alcalá, which has many of Madrid's landmarks, including the

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, Retiro Park and eventually ending in Puerta del Sol. It is also the site of Santa María la Blanca church which is notable especially for fine wooden lattice ceilings carved in the mid-16th century in the

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style, which were hidden under a plaster vault for hundreds of years and were uncovered in 2020. The Fiestas de Canillejas takes place from 1 to 8 September.

References

{{authority control Wards of Madrid San Blas-Canillejas