The Autonoma University is located north of Madrid, at the Km 14 of the Autovia de Colmenar Viejo M-607 (the highway from Madrid to the village of Colmenar Viejo), on the right hand side of the road as you drive away from Madrid.

• Take motorway M-40 direction North
• Exit M-40 to M-607 ("Direction Colmenar Viejo")
• Exit M-607 to "Universidad Autonoma"

The best choice is to take a taxi from the airport to the Madrid Autonoma University which will cost you around 30 €.

From Barajas airport one follows the signs "Metro" to the subway station. Line 8 takes you directly to Nuevos Ministerios quite efficiently (about 15 minutes). There you can pick up a train (Line C-1 to Alcobendas/San Sebastián de los Reyes, Line C-7 to Colmenar Viejo and Line C-10 to Tres Cantos) that takes you from that station to the University (Cantoblanco-Universidad Station). These are the map of the metro and the map of the train.

From Barajas airport one can take a bus to Madrid (Line 89), that stops right infront of the International arrivals lounge. This bus is fairly frequent (15-30 minutes periodicity) and its last stop is at Plaza de Colón, close to the center of town. You should go to that last stop, and locate the entrance to the underground train station called Recoletos, also at Plaza de Colon. You can pick up a train to Cantoblanco-Universidad Station.

From Barajas airport one follow the signs "Metro" to the subway station. Line 8 takes you directly to Nuevos Ministerios quite efficiently. Here is a map of the metro.

From Barajas airport one can take a bus to Madrid, that stops right infront of the International arrivals lounge. This bus is fairly frequent (15-30 minutes periodicity) and its last stop is at Plaza de Colón, close to the center of town.

You can take a taxi from the airport to town, by approximately 20 €.

There are two possibilities for arriving to the University by public transportation from Madrid.

By TRAIN

Probably the best way. There is a train station at the University. You can take one of these tree lines: Line C-1 to Alcobendas/San Sebastián de los Reyes, Line C-7 to Colmenar Viejo and Line C-10 to Tres Cantos All of them stop in Atocha (main station in the Centre/South of Madrid), Recoletos (Plaza de Colón, Paseo de la Castellana), Nuevos Ministerios (Paseo de la Castellana) and Chamartín (main station in the North). After Chamartín, the second stop is Cantoblanco-Universidad, where you should exit. Please consult the present Madrid- Tres Cantos and Tres Cantos -Madrid train time-table. Click here for a cleaner version of the time-table.

There are buses from Madrid to the University, which are fairly frequent at typical high hours (These are the buses you can take.) They leave from Plaza de Castilla. You might reach Plaza de Castilla by metro (there is a stop there). Then, exit the metro station and locate the terminal of buses going to the University.

Perhaps the best thing to do is to ask, although this map may be useful. First, you should reach the Faculty of Sciences ( Facultad de Ciencias ). Once inside the building of Sciences, Modulo C-XI ( C from Ciencias and eleven in roman numbers) is at the far end of the left-hand corridor. The offices are located on the 3rd,5th,6th floors.

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