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34-469: The metro was proposed during the 1990s to ease the crippling congestion when the Ministry of Public Works and Transport commissioned a study in 2001 into the feasibility of constructing a metro system in the city. The plan had four lines, radiating from the city centre, with stations roughly 500 m (1,640 ft) apart to allow a high level of accessibility, with funding for the project coming from both

68-670: Is assisted by two main officials, the Secretary of State for Infrastructure, Transport and Housing and the Under Secretary of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda. Other senior officials of the ministry include the Secretary General for Infrastructure, the Secretary General for Transport and the Secretary General for Housing. The current Minister is Raquel Sánchez since 12 July 2021. The Ministry of Development, currently Ministry of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda

102-595: Is located in the block delimited by the Paseo de la Castellana , the Raimundo Fernández Villaverde street, Agustín de Betancourt street and the San Juan de la Cruz square . The original project was the work of the architect Secundino Zuazo Ugalde and was soon sponsored by the then Minister of Public Works, Indalecio Prieto . Its construction began in 1933 and, although it was paralyzed during

136-509: Is used in the third and fourth seasons of the series Money Heist (La Casa de Papel in Spanish), in which it is being used as the Bank of Spain . During the 1920s, Madrid had surpassed one million inhabitants (with about 800,000 at the beginning of the decade) and the city grew at a good pace (the expansion was almost entirely built as suburbs arose on the suburbs without order or concert). At

170-592: The Civil War , the entire complex was completed in 1942. It currently houses the headquarters of the Ministry of Labour and the Ministry of Public Works , among others. The entire architectural complex is integrated into the so-called AZCA center , one of the most important business centers and offices in the capital. In the vicinity is also the Nuevos Ministerios station , a multiple exchanger with services of Bus , Metro and Cercanías . The building

204-508: The Cuiabá system, in Brazil . [REDACTED] [REDACTED] Media related to Málaga Metro at Wikimedia Commons Ministry of Public Works and Transport (Spain) The Ministry of Transport and Sustainable Mobility (MITMA) ( Spanish : Ministerio de Transportes y Movilidad Sostenible ), traditionally known as the Ministry of Development ( MIFOM ), is the department of

238-576: The Escorial as an inspiration for the project. However, at the beginning of the Civil War , the New Ministries were unfinished, and the persecution suffered by Zuazo at the end of the war, during which he had been exiled in France , prevented him from continuing with the project. This was finalized by a team of architects related to the new regime , which eliminated or modified important parts of

272-457: The Government of Spain responsible for preparing and implementing the government policy on land, air and maritime transport infrastructure and the control, planning and regulation of the transport services on this areas. It is also responsible for guaranteeing access to housing ; urban , soil and architecture policies; planning and controlling the postal and telegraph services, directing

306-468: The Ministry of Public Instruction was created. For five years, the department was named Agriculture, Industry, Trade and Public Works , with powers over railroads , roads , canals , ports , lighthouses and beacons , as well as agriculture , industry and trade . These last three areas of activity were attributed to the new Ministry of National Economy in 1928, maintaining public works , railways, mines , forestry , fishing and hunting . After

340-617: The Ministry of Public Works , played a relevant role, in charge of convincing Minister Prieto of the inconvenience of placing the Ministry of the Interior in the center of Madrid (in Callao ) And to build the rail link between the stations of the North and Atocha , under the Gran Vía , due to the great congestion that would occur in the center of Madrid . Thus, on the site left empty by

374-487: The New Ministries had been the work of Indalecio Prieto , Minister of Public Works . However, this idea had already been raised by Zuazo in his "Prolongation Project of Castellana" in 1930, so Prieto commissioned the construction of what would be the New Ministries, to house the ministries of Public Works and Government. After the demolition of the racecourse , the first stone was laid on April 15, 1933. Zuazo took

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408-761: The City Planning Office to expand the city. The office prepared it in a very short time, based on the proposals of Zuazo and Hansen. The Government of the Republic considered as a priority the modernization of Madrid and, in 1932, it approved the Capitality Act of Madrid. A year later, the Ministry of Government approved the General Expansion Project, taking almost the entire Municipal Office project. The fundamental point of

442-581: The Dispatch of General Development of the Realm (15) Minister of Transports and Communications (16) Minister of Transports, Tourism and Communications (17) Minister of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda Nuevos Ministerios Nuevos Ministerios (English: New Ministries ) is a government complex in central Madrid , Spain . The complex houses several government departments : Development , Labour , Social Security , and Ecological Transition . It

476-674: The General Secretariat for Environment. It was not until the third government of Felipe González when the merger occurred again (except for the Tourism area), by Royal Decree 576/1991, of 21 April, with Josep Borrell as minister of the Department (who in 1993 incorporated to its denomination the term 'Environment'). With the arrival of José María Aznar to the Government, the old denomination of Ministry of Development

510-629: The Merchant Navy (5) Minister of Communications, Transport and Public Works (6) Minister of Communications and Transport (7) Minister of Public Works and Urban Development (8) Minister of Public Works, Transport and the Environment (9) Minister of Development (10) Minister of Agriculture, Industry, Trade and Public Works (11) Minister of General Development of the Realm (12) Minister of Trade, Education and Public Works (13) Minister of Inner Affairs (14) Secretary of State and of

544-656: The Spanish company Construcciones y Auxiliar de Ferrocarriles . They are fully covered by CCTV and are throughout air-conditioned in an effort to provide security and comfort to a full capacity tramcar of 56 seated passengers with 170 standing. The capacity figure is accurate for likely peak-time usage, but the trains are also fully accessible to disabled passengers, who may slightly decrease capacity. The trams are already in successful widespread use in other cities, including 30 on trams in Belgrade , with 40 are also planned for

578-673: The Technical General Secretariat was created; the Directorate-General for Railways, Trams and Mechanical Transport by Road was renamed Directorate-General for Land Transport and the Directorate-General for Roads and Hydraulic Works was renamed Directorate-General for Roads. Major changes occur during the Constituent Legislature . Between July 1977 and March 1991, the competences of the original department remain divided in two: On

612-607: The advent of the Second Republic , and by virtue of the Decree of 16 December 1931, the name of the Ministry of Public Works was adopted. It had an Undersecretariat and three Directorates-General: Railways, Trams and Mechanical Road Transport; Roads and Hydraulic Works and the Central Service of Ports and Maritime Signals. The structure was maintained for almost half a century, albeit with partial modifications: in 1968

646-418: The demolition of the racecourse , the government of the Republic projected, as early as 1932, the construction of a complex in which to locate the ministerial departments, while building an underground rail link between Atocha-Cercanías and a new station in the north, Chamartín , which would be built by the engineer Eduardo Torroja and popularly called the "tunnel of the laughter". The idea of constructing

680-698: The end of the decade, and in order to growth and solve the nascent traffic problems, the City Council convened an International Competition for the Ordination of Madrid in 1929, which did not materialize. One of the plans presented had been drawn up by the Spanish architect Secundino Zuazo and the German urbanist Hermann Jansen . Shortly after the proclamation of the Republic , the City Council required

714-756: The headquarters of the Ministry of Transport , Labour , Social Security , as well as the Ministry for Ecological Transition . The complex is fully integrated into the Castellana and the AZCA Complex , one of the most important business centers and offices in the Spanish capital. From the exchanger of the Nuevos Ministerios Station you can reach the government complex, through Cercanías (Lines C-1, C-2, C-3, C-4, C-7, C- , Metro (Lines 6, 8 and 10) and Madrid Buses (Lines 7, 14, 27, 40, 126, 147, 150, C1 and C2). The current aspect of

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748-530: The historic centre of the city, which resulted in the increase of the metro's previous patronage from 28,000 daily users to 41,000 on the first operating day of the extension. Here are the most important features of the two lines: Both lines run underground in the city centre. Line 1 goes from there to the University of Málaga . Between Universidad station and the Andalucía Tech terminus, it runs on

782-401: The local and the Spanish governments . The system was originally scheduled to open on 31 October 2013. The two lines finally opened in service on 30 July 2014, as a limited service terminating at El Perchel station , adjacent to Málaga María Zambrano railway station . In March 2023, the metro was extended from its former city terminus at El Perchel station by 1.7 km (1.1 mi) into

816-517: The ministry was renamed "of the Interior" and in December 1835 "Secretary of State and of the Dispatch of the Governance of the Realm". Precisely, in 1847. that department split for the first time with the creation of a Secretariat of the Dispatch for Commerce, Instruction and Public Works which assumed the competences over public works, education and charity and, in 1851, officially acquired

850-549: The name of Ministry of Development. Around 1869 the Ministry was composed of the Directorate-General for Public Instruction and the Directorate-General for Public Works, Agriculture, Industry and Trade. A year later the National Geographic Institute was created, which is incorporated from the first moment to this Ministry. In 1900, the Education and Culture areas were torn apart from Development, when

884-477: The one hand, the Ministry of Public Works and Urbanism (with the incorporation of the competences in matter of housing and the Directorate-General for Territorial Action and Environment, coming from Office of the Prime Minister ) and on the other hand, the Ministry of Transport and Communications (since 1981, also Tourism). In 1990, the environmental issue was given greater importance, with the creation of

918-583: The project was to achieve the expansion of the city to the north, around the Paseo de la Castellana . As part of this purpose, the old racecourse , which was an obstacle to the planning of Paseo de la Castellana, was demolished. Another important milestone of the project was the construction of rail links between the stations in Madrid . Again Zuazo, this time as a member of the Railways Commission of

952-576: The project, such as the skyscraper planned for the north side. The work was finally completed in 1942, although the Ministry of Public Works and Urban Planning (MOPU) did not move there until 1958. There are suspicions that Zuazo shaped the plant as the Communist emblem of the hammer and sickle , since he was a supporter of the Soviet Union. The reference would not be noticed by the later Francoist architects. Nuevos Ministerios currently houses

986-594: The services related to astronomy , geodesy , geophysics and mapping , and planning and programing the government investments on infrastructure and services related to this scope. The Ministry's headquarters are in the New Ministries government complex. MITMA is headed by the Minister of Transport, Mobility and Urban Agenda, who is appointed by the King of Spain at request of the Prime Minister . The Minister

1020-572: The surface, which includes some at-grade intersections . Line 2 runs entirely underground, from the city centre to the Jose Maria Martin Carpena Arena . An extension of Line 1 from El Perchel further into the city centre with two underground stops, Guadalmedina and Atarazanas, opened on 27 March 2023. By extending the metro closer to the city centre, patronage is expected to reach 18 million annually. Line 2 will share El Perchel and Guadalmedina stations with Line 1, then

1054-538: The whole retains much of the original form and style of the project, in which the echoes of the Monastery of El Escorial (in whose maintenance Zuazo worked) and the House of Flowers (an earlier work by Zuazo). The complex consists of a large central space with open spaces, fountains and ponds, around which different ministries are arranged, as well as a large arcade on the side facing Paseo de la Castellana . The archery

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1088-496: Was created in by Royal Decree of 28 January 1847. In this date, the former Secretariat of State and of the Dispatch of General Development of the Realm (created in 1812 and re-established in 1832 ) had a huge scope of competences and included areas of government policy that, over the years, would be splintered in the Ministries of Education , Culture , Agriculture , Development, Health , Industry and Commerce. On 13 May 1834

1122-418: Was originally to emerge above ground and continue with four surface-level stops to Hospital Civil. The completion date for this extension is currently unknown, and this extension is predicted to increase overall annual patronage of the metro to 20.5 million. In 2019, the scope of the project was amended to a fully underground alignment from Guadalmedina to Hospital Civil. All trams are Urbos 3 , manufactured by

1156-579: Was recovered and it is created, for the first time in Spain , a Ministry of Environment which assumed those competences. Since then, the competencies has been practically the same with little modifications like the loss of the telecoms functions in 2000 and the loss of housing functions between 2004 and 2010. The Ministry of Development employs the following bodies: (1) Minister of Communications (2) Minister of Public Works (3) Minister of Public Works and Communications (4) Minister of Communications and

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