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Pinar del Rey, Madrid — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Pinar del Rey is a neighbourhood of Madrid in the Hortaleza district, gathered around parishes such as the Iglesia de San Martín de Porres.
About Pinar del Rey
Where to stay in Pinar del Rey
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Pinar del Rey stretches across a green slice of Hortaleza, laid out for families more than for guests. Hotels are thin on the ground. Visitors who want to base near this part of Madrid usually take rooms closer to the centre and come out for the churches and gardens, treating the barrio as a restful pause from the busier core.
Come for the calm. If you would rather wake to quiet avenues than to traffic, this reach of the Comunidad de Madrid answers well.
About Pinar del Rey
What are the main landmarks in Pinar del Rey?
Pinar del Rey is unusually well churched. The Iglesia de San Martín de Porres, the Church of San Juan Bautista, and the iglesia de Nuestra Señora del Tránsito each serve corners of the barrio, while the palacete Villa Rosa keeps an older garden set with ornamental columns. Sculpture turns up outdoors too.
The Monumento Junta Municipal de Hortaleza marks the civic heart of the wider district.
What is the history of Pinar del Rey?
Pinar del Rey has few dates to point to. Its parish churches came with the housing, the Iglesia de San Martín de Porres and the Church of San Juan Bautista rising as the streets of Hortaleza filled in within the growing city of Madrid. The old estates thinned over time.
Only the palacete Villa Rosa survives from that earlier landscape, a fragment of the gardens that once spread where the quarter now stands.
Where is Pinar del Rey?
Pinar del Rey lies within the Hortaleza district of Madrid, a broad barrio of the Comunidad de Madrid threaded with parish churches and quiet gardens.
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Updated July 2026