I’m willing to bet I’m not the first person and won’t be the last. If I had problems finding Kilometre 0, other people visiting Madrid might find it hard too. He pointed me in the right direction and I got to where I wanted to be.
My gut feeling was he was a local and I was right. I didn’t want to ask a tourist because they might not know so I approached a guy pushing a pram. The thing is, it was easy to see many of the people in the square were tourists. After spending a few minutes walking around looking like a guy who’d lost a contact lens, I gave up and decided to ask for help. There were lots of street entertainers too. What I found was crowds of people all around. I expected to see a crowd of people looking at the ground. I also presumed it would be somewhere in the centre of the square I got that wrong too.įinding Puerta del Sol was easy, but I couldn’t find the Kilometre 0 marker at all. Puerta del Sol is one of the most important squares in Madrid so I figured Kilometre 0 would be easy to find. The article I read about Kilometre 0 said it’s in Puerta del Sol (Gate of the Sun). Between the pointers is a small circle (or Zero?) directly over Madrid. There are are also two golden pointers that resemble the hands of a clock set to quarter-past-nine. It shows a map of Spain with Madrid in the centre and the six main roads radiating away from it. In Madrid, Kilometre 0 is marked by a small decorative paving stone in the ground. That’s the official definition, but you could also see it as the place where all the main roads end-all roads lead to Madrid 🙂Īpparently, lots of other countries have a Kilometre 0 as well, but I’d never heard of the idea until earlier today when I was planning a trip to Madrid.
It’s the place where all the Spanish main roads begin (A-1 to A-6). Kilometre 0 (Kilometre Zero) is quite an important spot in Madrid.
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