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Arcos, Torrejón de Ardoz — Area Guide & Where to Stay
Arcos is an administrative barrio of Madrid, one of the neighbourhoods of the San Blas-Canillejas district east of the city centre.
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Where to stay in Arcos
The right area depends on your trip — here's what each neighbourhood is best for.
Most of Arcos is housing. Rooms in this part of Madrid are thin on the floor, and travellers who need to be near the San Blas-Canillejas end of the city usually book toward the centre and come out for whatever business or fixture brings them. The Centro Deportivo Municipal San Blas is the district's own draw.
The Reloj de sol belongs to the barrio itself.
Few places to stay in Arcos — most visitors book in Madrid nearby.
About Arcos
What are the main landmarks in Arcos?
The barrio's listed feature is a sundial. Registered as the Reloj de sol, it is the single entry Arcos brings to the San Blas-Canillejas heritage list, which otherwise gathers churches, a sports centre and a listed petrol station on the avenida de Aragón. Churches account for most of it.
The Church of Santa María la Blanca and the Iglesia de la Encarnación del Señor stand within the district, with the Cruceiro Virgen del Camino and the Centro Deportivo Municipal San Blas completing what San Blas-Canillejas puts before a visitor.
What is the history of Arcos?
Arcos exists as an administrative unit. Madrid divides itself into districts and then into barrios, and Arcos is one of those smaller units, drawn inside the San Blas-Canillejas district that the city constituted in 2012. Two names were joined in that district.
San Blas and Canillejas each gave it half a name, and the barrio of Arcos sits within the result, holding its Reloj de sol and little else on the register.
Where is Arcos?
The barrio covers a little over a square kilometre of San Blas-Canillejas, the Madrid district that pairs San Blas with Canillejas.
Common questions
What is the best area to stay in Arcos?
Arcos: quiet blocks around the barrio's own Reloj de sol. Central Madrid: visitors who want the city centre rather than the eastern barrios.
Updated September 2026