Granada Metro
Light rail · Granada · Metropolitano de Granada
1 line · 26 stations
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Lines
Quick facts
- Operator
- Metropolitano de Granada runs the single Line 1 route between Albolote and Armilla.
- Network type
- One-line light rail, mostly useful for modern Granada rather than the hill towns and old quarters.
- This is not the way to reach the Alhambra or the Albayzin, but it is useful if your trip involves the rail station, bus station, university, or south-side hotels.
- Light railSurface light rail
- Airport
- No airport rail. Granada Airport is still a bus, taxi, or car arrival.
- If you fly into Malaga, that is also a bus or rental-car move before the Granada city layer starts.
- No airport rail
- Visitor stops
- Estacion Autobuses, Estacion Ferrocarril, Universidad, Recogidas, Alcazar Genil, and Palacio Deportes are the stops most likely to matter.
Mike’s notes
Granada is a walking city for the parts most travelers came to see: the Alhambra, the Albayzin, the old center, the tapas streets. The metro does not replace that. It is a one-line light rail that cuts across the newer, flatter city.
That makes it useful in a narrower but real way. If you are arriving at the bus station, connecting to the rail station, staying south of the center, or moving around the university and sports-conference side of town, Line 1 is the cleanest public-transport layer.
How I would use it
For the historic-center version of Granada, I would not build the day around the metro. Recogidas is the central stop to know, and from there the city becomes a walk.
For arrivals, the practical stops are Estacion Autobuses for the bus station and Estacion Ferrocarril for the rail station. Granada Airport is not on the system, so do not let the word metro trick you into expecting an airport train.
Built-environment note
The best little station story is Alcazar Genil. The stop sits near the remains of an Almohad-era palace complex, which gives the system one of those Granada moments where ordinary transport suddenly runs into deep history.
The rest of the route reads as modern Granada: surface-running light rail, university stops, shopping and sports nodes, and the suburbs at each end. That is useful. It is just a different Granada from the postcards.
Short history
2017
Line 1 opens
Granada gets its modern light-rail spine, linking Albolote, Maracena, Granada, and Armilla.
Today
A practical city spine
The metro is best understood as the modern-city connector. The historic Granada trip still depends on walking, buses, and taxis around the hills.