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El Pozo
General information
LocationCentro, Madrid
Spain
Coordinates40°26′48″N 3°41′32″W / 40.44667°N 3.69222°W / 40.44667; -3.69222
Platforms2
Construction
Structure typeAt Grade
Platform levels2
Other information
Fare zoneA
History
OpenedJuly 15, 1992 (1992-07-15)
Services
Preceding station Cercanías Madrid Following station
Asamblea de Madrid Entrevíastowards Chamartín C-2 Vallecastowards Guadalajara
Asamblea de Madrid Entrevíastowards Príncipe Pío C-7 Vallecastowards Alcalá de Henares

El Pozo Station is a Cercanías station in Vallecas neighborhood (Madrid). It was opened on July 15, 1992, and it is located in El Pozo area. It belongs to lines C-2 and C-7 of Cercanías Madrid.

On the morning of March 11, 2004, a double-decker commuter train exploded with two bombs at this station, thus killing 68 people. It was later discovered that the Islamic terrorist cell Al-Qaeda was behind the attack. In 2011, a monument made by the architect José María Pérez González [es] with the collaboration of several Spanish artists, including Juan Genovés, Forges, and Andrés Rábago García [es], was inaugurated near the station in memory of those who died in the attacks of March 2004.

Monument to the victims of the 2004 terrorist attack

References

  1. "Lunes, 11 de marzo de 2019". La Vanguardia (in Spanish). March 10, 2019. Retrieved December 19, 2023.
  2. VA, Vallecas (March 11, 2011). "Gallardón inaugura el monumento de El Pozo junto a Rajoy". Vallecas VA (in Spanish). Retrieved December 19, 2023.


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