Quevedo is a station of Line 2 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 is named after

Francisco de Quevedo Francisco Gómez de Quevedo y Santibáñez Villegas, Order of Santiago, Knight of the Order of Santiago (; 14 September 1580 – 8 September 1645) was a Spanish nobleman, politician and writer of the Baroque era. Along with his lifelong rival, ...

, a Spanish writer.

History

The station was opened on 9 October 1929 on Line 2.

References

Line 2 (Madrid Metro) stations Railway stations in Spain opened in 1925 {{Madrid-metro-stub