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Cuatro Caminos, Madrid — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Cuatro Caminos is a ward of Madrid, Spain, its streets gathered around the Museo Geominero and the old Maudes Hospital.
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Where to stay in Cuatro Caminos
Where visitors usually base themselves, and why.
Cuatro Caminos works as a plain, well-linked base in Madrid. Rooms here stand close to the Museo Geominero and the Escuela Superior de Ingenieros de Minas, on busy avenues that carry the city's traffic past a ward built where several roads converge. The feel is unpretentious and urban.
If you value transport links and everyday streets over polished tourist frontage, Cuatro Caminos keeps the Nuevos Ministerios complex and the wider centre of Madrid within easy reach.
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Things to do in and around Madrid
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Museums & Galleries
3- National Museum of Natural Sciences
- Casa de la Arquitectura
- Museo Histórico Minero Don Felipe de Borbón y Grecia
Churches & Religious Sites
3- Church of San Francisco de Sales Heritage
- church of Our Lady of the Angels Heritage
- Church of Espíritu Santo, Madrid
Castles & Historic Sites
4- Maudes Hospital Heritage
- Residencia de Estudiantes Heritage
- Asilo de Convalecientes, Madrid Heritage
- Escuela Superior de Ingenieros de Minas Heritage
Nature & Outdoors
1- Parque Tercer Depósito
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About Cuatro Caminos
What are the main landmarks in Cuatro Caminos?
Cuatro Caminos carries a cluster of scientific and civic landmarks across its part of Madrid. The Museo Geominero fills a grand hall inside the Escuela Superior de Ingenieros de Minas, while the National Museum of Natural Sciences and the Residencia de Estudiantes stand nearby. Brick and tilework mark it too.
The old Maudes Hospital, a landmark of glazed stone, rises close to the Nuevos Ministerios complex at the edge of the ward in Madrid, Spain.
What is the history of Cuatro Caminos?
Cuatro Caminos took shape around the crossroads that gave the ward its name. The Escuela Superior de Ingenieros de Minas and the Museo Geominero mark an early scientific chapter, institutions of mining and geology settled here as housing filled the surrounding streets of Madrid. Study and care arrived together.
The Residencia de Estudiantes and the old Maudes Hospital carry that same period forward within Cuatro Caminos, a working quarter of the city of Madrid, Spain.
Where is Cuatro Caminos?
Cuatro Caminos sits within Madrid, Spain, its streets meeting at the crossroads that name it, close to the Museo Geominero and the Nuevos Ministerios complex.
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What is the best area to stay in Cuatro Caminos?
Around the Cuatro Caminos junction: a plain, transport-linked Madrid stay near the Museo Geominero and the Nuevos Ministerios complex in Cuatro Caminos.
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Updated October 2026