Amidst the chaos and traffic of Madrid, numerous green spaces, parks and gardens offer respite to the capital’s residents. For its maintenance, Madrid City Hall will invest next year more than 25 million euros and will do so in 52 spaces spread across 16 districts of the capital. Most of it will be for Villaverde (where the expansion of the Metropolitan Forest will continue), Latina (with the completion of the reform of the Las Cruces park) and Ciudad Lineal (with another section of the Metropolitan Forest in the northern part of O’Donnell). The Town Hall’s Urban Planning, Environment and Mobility department launched an action plan in 2019 to invest in green spaces, which includes 124 transformation, improvement and conservation interventions. In the latest report, he said that 106 works had already been carried out.
The largest amount, 3,674,278 eurosis intended for the creation of the Green Ring of Villaverde and the “natural corridor zone and river park of the Butarque stream” of the Metropolitan Forest, according to the accounts of the Consistory. The green ring of this neighborhood is divided into two: the one that articulates the connection with the Butarque linear park in Leganés, integrating the existing parks, the Julio Alguacil forest, the Plata and Castañar park, the Plata and Castañar sports center and the forest itself.
For him Garden of Light Park created by the Town Hall in 2021 In an old abandoned site, 270,000 euros will be allocated to improve it and install unique children’s games. The garden has an area of 4,475 square meters distributed between Amadeo Fernández, Bismuto, del Cobalto streets and the Nuestra Señora de la Luz school and, with the arrangement of the garden, the latter’s students have secure access to the center. The playgrounds will also be improved thanks to 30,000 euros and zip lines will be installed in the Plata and Castañar park, in the San Andrés district. More than 200,000 euros will be allocated to construction a climbing wall in Dehesa Boyal Park in San Cristóbal and restore Katiuska Park, respectively.
Instead, Esmaltina Park will have to wait another year to get a facelift. For 2026, an expenditure of 30,000 euros is planned to develop the rehabilitation project and the majority, 1,432,000 euros, will be invested in 2027. The neighbors demanded an overall shape of the space, which they consider “semi-abandoned”, with new games for the little ones and an exercise area for the older ones.
After the amount of the budget allocated to green spaces, Latina is the second district that receives the most money, with 3.5 million. The main part will go to the third phase of rehabilitation of the Las Cruces parkwork on which began in October and is expected to last approximately 10 months. Once completed, exercise areas for seniors, areas for children, an area for dogs and a climbing wall will have been installed; improving accessibility and lighting and replacing damaged furniture items. The Town Hall took action in 2023 and 2024 in this 43-hectare park and created new outdoor facilities and planted 268 new trees.
Anything less will last in time, about seven months, the transformation of Cerro Almodóvar park. The residents of Aluche have demanded action in this area of 173,000 square meters and, with 961,700 euros, a comprehensive rehabilitation will be undertaken. After the works, five new areas will be created for residents, with outdoor sports, living and exercise areas; in addition to improvements in accessibility, drainage system and recovery of the Fuente del Carnero space.
The third neighborhood on the podium in terms of investment next year in green spaces is Ciudad Lineal. The vast majority, more than €3 million, will go to Metropolitan Forest in the northern part of O’Donnell, after in 2023 the city council awarded work on former land that was used as a landfill. The remaining amount will be used for develop the slopes and create a green space on Daroca Avenue.
Usera will receive 2.6 million euros for create green space on Primitiva Gañán Street and regenerate other areas of the neighborhood. Concretely, for the first project, one million euros is allocated so that disused land becomes a new park, between Primitiva Gañán and Cristo de la Victoria streets. It is located next to a health center, an educational center, the national police station and the prefecture itself and, after the intervention, “it will be able to be enjoyed by all the neighbors”, as the vice-mayor of Madrid, Inma Sanz, said in October. The other two interventions consist of regenerating green spaces in several squares in the San Fermín neighborhood (170,000 euros) and green spaces in Orcasitas (1,488,000 euros).
After the rehabilitation of the lake Casa de Campo and its surroundings and the recovery of sidewalks and trees damaged by the passage of storm Filomena, next year they will continue to rehabilitate this green space, for which the Town Hall will invest more than 1.7 million. In addition to this action, 74,360 euros are allocated to the Casa de los Vargas, located in the same environment. More than 30 professionals are already working to recover this monument and its outdoor garden. The Consistory plans to open its doors in 2027, coinciding with the 500th anniversary of the birth of Philip II, who resided in this enclave. In this same neighborhood, after abandoning the construction of a climbing wall in Bombilla Park due to its “infeasibility”, tracks will be built next year to achieve skate park And pump trackfor which 750,000 euros are reserved.
THE rehabilitation of the forest area located at km 13 of the M-607from this road, near the cultural center, to the Ventisquero de la Condesa roundabout, next to the new buildings of Arroyo del Fresno and Pitis, will cost 1.6 million euros. This work began in October and is expected to last eight months. The initiative was born from a participatory process in which neighbors asked to recover this green strip as a meeting space and with these actions they will plant 128 new trees and 3,496 shrubsand the surface of the park will be made permeable. Additionally, access to the Montecarmelo lookout is being improved, which will have a new ramp and benches, picnic and chess tables, a drinking water fountain and bicycle parking. The other project in this neighborhood will involve rehabilitating the groundwater reservoirs of Parque Norte and Parque de la Vaguada.
The two districts of old Vallecas will receive a total of 2.6 million euros. Villa de Vallecas takes the lion’s sharesince the roads and residential areas of the green spaces of the Ensanche de Vallecas are going to be improved, although which ones are not yet specified. Minor actions also include redeveloping the green space of Colonia Vilda, the one located between Malpica del Tajo and Fuentidueña streets, the side beds of the green space on Peña Cervera street and the one located between Carrasca and Puerto Lumbrales streets. On the other hand, a shade structure will be installed above the stands of the auditorium of Lola Camarena Park.
In Puente de Vallecas, the green spaces for children on Imagen Street will be rehabilitated and adapted, while this will also be carried out, with 25,488 euros for each, in different green spaces in the neighborhoods of Numancia, Palomeras Bajas, Entrevías, San Diego and Portazgo, as shown by the territorialized investment project of the capital’s Town Hall.
In San Blas, the effort will be focused on rehabilitate the walls of two historic parks: Quinta de los Molinos and Quinta de Torre Arias. In 2026, the Town Hall will continue to try to return El Paraíso Park to its neighbors, after years of degradation. In several phases of rehabilitation, three new children’s play areas were installed, street furniture was renewed and 139 trees were planted. It is now the turn to prepare the auditorium of this enclave for the greatest pleasure of the inhabitants.
After improving access to the San Vicente de Paúl senior center in Carabanchel, it will now be the turn of the square of the same name, where the green spaces will be renovated for half a million euros. In the same neighborhood, the public gardens on Carlos Dabán street and behind the Colonia Pan Bendito parish.
In the case of Chamartín, it is not specified which parks in the neighborhood will be renovated but 245,000 euros are planned for this. The same amount will be for renovate the garden located rue Darro, 26.
In Moratalaz, we are resuming a project which was also envisaged in this year’s municipal accounts: building a kiosk bar in Cuña Verde Parkthe largest in the neighborhood, located on Avenida del Doctor García Tapia, 125, for which 402,000 euros will be allocated. Another demand from the neighborhood encourages investment in this area: completing the green space parallel to the A-3, along Arroyo Fontarrón Street. However, according to the amounts allocated, everything indicates that it will be completed in 2027, since 930,000 euros are reserved; while for 2026, it is only 20,000 euros.
Already in 2018, a neighbor proposed in the participatory municipal budgets to install a gymnastics area in the Casino de la Reina park and next year the Town Hall will begin to adapt the space to make it happen, with 95,000 euros. The second project is intended for Almendro, 3, a land reclaimed in 2017 after more than two decades of abandonment to create a recreational area for children and adults in the neighborhood. With 100,000 euros, the interior of the garden will be adapted.
In Retiro, after eliminating the gardens of the Jardines del 12 de Octubre park due to water leaks, this area will be renovated next year for 85,000 euros to restore vegetation; and Annunciation Park will also be improved. The green lung of this district is also envisaged in future investments, in particular the Retiro pond. The Town Hall has launched a call for tenders to develop a renovation project and, for the moment, it will spend more than 113,000 euros to condition the water treatment plant.
The walls of another historic park in the city, Quinta Fuente del Berro, will also be rehabilitated. Furthermore, in the district of Salamanca, the Aurora Auñón Gardens. In this environment of Guindalera, surrounded by the streets of Pilar de Zaragoza, José Picón and Andrés Tamayo, the Town Hall installed a pergola in 2022 to provide shade in the area reserved for children.
Finally, the district in which we will invest the least in terms of green spaces is Chamberí. 96,800 euros will renovate the gardens of Plaza Conde del Valle Suchilin Arapiles, and the children’s area of Enrique Herreros Park, located at the confluence of Cea Bermúdez and Bravo Murillo streets. The accounts also generally envisage 30,000 euros to replant trees and adapt irrigation in parks in the city of Madrid, a figure which rises to 121.4 million by 2027.
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