Atocha Railway Station
Description:
The Atocha station is Madrid’s largest railway station, which gained worldwide fame on March 11, 2004 due to a series of bloody terrorist attacks. The station was named after the demolished Atocha gate.
13 lines of suburban trains pass through the station. The main directions of train traffic from the station go south: to Seville, Malaga, Cordoba, Valencia. There are also trains to the west and east of the country. Even at the station stop trains and trains of the Madrid metro.
The old waiting room of the station is one of the attractions of Madrid. Inside the hall is a greenhouse in which palm trees, ferns grow, it even has a pond with turtles.
The station differs from the modern station Chamartin in that there are no shops and food outlets.
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