Leganés: M-45
Leganés has served as an agricultural settlement on Madrid’s southern plain since the Middle Ages. The municipality is now part of the capital’s continuous metropolitan belt, where the M-45 orbital motorway passes El Bercial amid open plots, warehouses and residential districts. This expressway is one of the principal cross-links for road traffic between Madrid’s southern suburbs, rather than a radial route into the centre. Leganés retains a civic identity beyond its transport corridors: it is home to a campus of Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. The low, open terrain belongs to the wider Madrid basin, with the Guadarrama Mountains defining the region’s northern and western horizon.
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Leganés has served as an agricultural settlement on Madrid’s southern plain since the Middle Ages. Today it is a substantial city within the Madrid metropolitan area, set on inland terrain in the Manzanares river basin. Cucumber cultivation earned its residents the enduring nickname pepineros, an identity still used by the city and its football club. The historic centre includes the Church of San Salvador, while the Leganés campus of Universidad Carlos III de Madrid brings a university presence to the municipality. Cercanías rail and MetroSur place it firmly in the everyday urban network south of the capital. Continue with other webcams from the Community of Madrid to see how this part of central Spain connects regionally.
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