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Ambroz, Madrid — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Ambroz is a former administrative neighbourhood of Madrid in the Vicálvaro district, merged into Casco Histórico de Vicálvaro in 2017.
About Ambroz
Where to stay in Ambroz
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Casco Histórico de Vicálvaro is the address to search. Ambroz no longer stands as a separate neighbourhood, so a room booked under that name will in practice be a room in Vicálvaro, inside the neighbourhood that took it in. Central Madrid is the alternative.
Basing there puts the whole city within reach and leaves Vicálvaro as a destination rather than a base, which suits travellers who would rather not commute in from an outer district.
About Ambroz
What are the main landmarks in Ambroz?
No monument carries the name. Ambroz has no listed landmark of its own, and the markers a visitor would look for belong to Casco Histórico de Vicálvaro, the neighbourhood that absorbed it. Vicálvaro carries them instead.
Anyone tracing Ambroz on the ground is really walking the old quarter of Vicálvaro, since the boundary that once set Ambroz apart no longer appears on the neighbourhood map of Madrid.
What is the history of Ambroz?
A council vote ended it. Ambroz was an administrative neighbourhood of Madrid inside the district of Vicálvaro until 2017, when approval by Madrid's city council folded its territory into the Casco Histórico de Vicálvaro neighbourhood. The name outlived the boundary.
Ambroz still appears in the gazetteers that record Madrid's places, a survival common where an administrative name in Spain outlasts the line it once described.
Where is Ambroz?
Vicálvaro holds the ground. Ambroz names a stretch of that Madrid district counted since 2017 inside Casco Histórico de Vicálvaro.
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Updated September 2026