# Moratalaz

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{{Infobox settlement
| name = Moratalaz
| settlement_type = [District of Madrid](/source/Districts_of_Madrid)
| image_map = Maps - ES - Madrid - Moratalaz.PNG
| image_skyline = Madrid-Moratalaz.jpg
| image_caption = Moratalaz from [Retiro](/source/Retiro_(Madrid)) district
| area_total_km2 = 6.34
| population_total = 104,923
| population_density_km2 = 16,549.37
| postal_code = 28030
| subdivision_type = Country
| subdivision_name = {{flagicon|Spain}} [Spain](/source/Spain)
| subdivision_type1 = [Aut. community](/source/Autonomous_communities_of_Spain)
| subdivision_name1 = 20px|border [Madrid](/source/Community_of_Madrid)
| subdivision_type2 = [Municipality](/source/Municipalities_of_Spain)
| subdivision_name2 = 15px [Madrid](/source/Madrid)
| leader_title = [Councillor-President](/source/City_Council_of_Madrid)
| leader_name = Ignacio Pezuela Cabañes ([PP](/source/People's_Party_(Spain)), 2023)
| blank_name_sec1 = Madrid district number
| blank_info_sec1 = 14
| blank_name_sec2 = Address of council
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'''Moratalaz''' is a [district](/source/Districts_of_Madrid) of [Madrid](/source/Madrid), [Spain](/source/Spain). It is a well-known area because musicians such as [Melendi](/source/Melendi) and [Alejandro Sanz](/source/Alejandro_Sanz) have lived there. Moratalaz is on east of [municipality](/source/Municipalities_of_Spain) of [Madrid](/source/Madrid). It has {{cvt|6.34|km2}} of surface area and is delineated by the highways of M-30 to the west, M-40 to the east, M23 to the north and A-3 to the south.

==Geography==
===Subdivision===
The district is administratively divided into seven wards (''barrios''):
*[Fontarrón](/source/Fontarr%C3%B3n) (145)
*[Horcajo](/source/Horcajo_(Madrid)) (142)
*[Marroquina](/source/Marroquina) (143)
*[Media Legua](/source/Media_Legua_(Madrid)) (144)
*[Pavones](/source/Pavones) (141)
*[Vinateros](/source/Vinateros) (146)

==History==
Moratalaz arose as a commuter suburb of [Madrid](/source/Madrid) during the 1960s. Famous inhabitants of the district have been [Elvira Lindo](/source/Elvira_Lindo), [Melendi](/source/Melendi), el Dioni, [Alejandro Sanz](/source/Alejandro_Sanz), "Cleanhead" Joe McGaha,<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.aboutus.org/Category:Cleanhead_Joe_McGaha |title="Cleanhead" Joe McGaha |access-date=2007-07-25 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070929151503/http://www.aboutus.org/Category:Cleanhead_Joe_McGaha |archive-date=2007-09-29 |url-status=dead }}</ref> and Letizia Ortiz.

Before 1960, Moratalaz was an agglomeration of barely 40 houses with only one paved street. It was located midway on a road that connected Madrid's main cemetery [Cementerio de la Almudena](/source/Cementerio_de_la_Almudena) with the then unincorporated village of [Vallecas](/source/Vallecas).

The [Colonia del Ferrocarril](/source/Colonia_del_Ferrocarril) was a housing project in the 1960s that was developed in Moratalaz. The [Madrid](/source/Madrid)-[Arganda del Rey](/source/Arganda_del_Rey) train stopped there, and Moratalaz kept growing.

A military property gave birth to what today is one of the main streets of the district, Calle del Pico de los Artilleros. And an old road connecting [Madrid](/source/Madrid) with [Castilla La Mancha](/source/Castilla_La_Mancha) gave rise to Moratalaz's main avenue, Camino de los Vinateros.

There was extraordinary and uncontrolled development in the 1970s, thanks to the programs of the Ministry of the Housing and the construction company Urbis. That led to the typical wide avenues and open spaces of Moratalaz, where traffic lanes are separated from houses by a wide green zone in between. That concept was not very popular in the 1970s, but nowadays it is much appreciated, as it's an excellent measure against noise pollution.

The distinctive emblem of Public Housing during Franco's dictatorship (a yoke traversed with arrows) can still be found in the older blocks dating from that era.

[Valencian](/source/Valencian_people) Antonio Galbis holds the [Guinness Book of World Records](/source/Guinness_Book_of_World_Records) for the largest [paella](/source/paella) that 100,000 people in Moratalaz enjoyed in 2001. Several giant cranes, rakes, a paella pan of {{cvt|400|m2}}, {{cvt|6,000|kg}} of [rice](/source/rice), {{cvt|12,500|kg}} of chicken and rabbit, {{cvt|5,000|kg}} of vegetables, {{cvt|11,000|L}} of virgin [olive oil](/source/olive_oil), {{cvt|300|kg}} of salt, {{cvt|26|kg}} of pimentón (smoked paprika), {{cvt|16|kg}} of [annatto](/source/annatto) and a kilogram of ground [saffron](/source/saffron) were used.

==Population==
In this area live 106,344 people, 53,203 of which are immigrants according to the 2022 census.

== Main sights ==
Moratalaz is famous for its large parks and open spaces. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormons) maintains a temple in the district. It is the only Mormon temple in Spain.

== Transportation ==
Moratalaz is served by [Metro de Madrid](/source/Madrid_Metro) line 9. It has three stops in the district: [Vinateros](/source/Vinateros_(Madrid_Metro)), [Artilleros](/source/Artilleros_(Madrid_Metro)) and [Pavones](/source/Pavones_(Madrid_Metro)); a fourth station, [Estrella](/source/Estrella_(Madrid_Metro)), lies under the [M-30 motorway](/source/Autopista_de_Circunvalaci%C3%B3n_M-30) between Moratalaz and the [Retiro](/source/Retiro_(Madrid)) district.

Additionally, Moratalaz is served by several bus lines and a night bus, connecting with the city center thanks to the bus line 20 as well as the line 71. Also, the train lines closest to Moratalaz are line C1 as well as line C10.<ref>{{cite web |title=¿Cómo llegar en Metro, Autobús o Tren a Moratalaz en Madrid? |url=https://moovitapp.com/index/es/transporte_p%C3%BAblico-Moratalaz-Madrid-site_7310451-21 |website=Moovit |access-date=31 December 2020}}</ref>

==References==
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