Grid streets of five and six storey Ensanche apartment blocks around small squares, and a sealed 1919 metro platform still tiled in its original white and cobalt blue.
What Chamberí looks like
Chamberí sits on the grid of Madrid's nineteenth century Ensanche, its streets wide and straight and opening onto small plazas instead of running unbroken for blocks. Five and six storey apartment buildings line them in brick and stone, wrought iron balconies at almost every window and shops filling the ground floors below.
is octagonal, its garden centred on a fountain and ringed by matching apartment blocks. , on Calle de Hilarión Eslava, is a five storey block from 1931 with elliptical ground floor arches and balconies still planted with flower boxes. Its apartments are arranged around three landscaped courtyards, the largest one open to the sky.
On Calle de Santa Engracia in Ríos Rosas, a brick chimney from a nineteenth century pumping station for the Canal de Isabel II stands beside the Metro entrance. Next to it, a red brick fire station has three arched garage doors under a stepped gable.
, on Calle de Alonso Cano, is a single level hall of about fifty stalls reopened in its current form in 1943. , a second covered market in the Arapiles corner of the district, is wrapped in red stucco with its name painted in blue letters across the corner.
Beneath Plaza de Chamberí, the sealed keeps its original 1919 platform intact, white and cobalt blue ceramic tiles running the length of a tightly curved wall still showing period advertising posters. It has been open to visitors as the Andén Cero museum since 2008.
Shot in Chamberí
The Netflix series Valeria filmed at Plaza de Olavide and the wine bar Vino y Compañía on the square. , a theatre a few streets away, also appears in one scene. The Amazon Prime Video series Reina Roja filmed inside the real, preserved Chamberí metro station for some of its underground scenes. The villain's own lair was built as a separate set elsewhere.
Valeria and Reina Roja
Plaza de Olavide and the sealed metro station beneath Plaza de Chamberí, a few streets apart in the same grid of apartment blocks.
Valeria, 2020
Plaza de Olavide
Valeria's characters meet and say goodbye on the terraces around Plaza de Olavide, an octagonal square lined with cafes and apartment blocks. Vino y Compañía, the wine bar at Plaza de Olavide 5, appears on camera as itself. Lola stops there to check her phone in one scene. Street View
Reina Roja (Red Queen), 2024
Chamberí metro station
Reina Roja filmed inside the real, preserved Chamberí station for some of its underground scenes. The original 1919 platform tiles and advertising stay on the walls, and the show's own underground lair for its antagonist was a separate set built elsewhere. Street View
Barrio Norte's five and six storey apartment blocks share Chamberí's own scale, built across the same decades with cut stone door surrounds and wrought iron balconies at every floor. Buenos Aires's avenues run wider and its jacaranda trees give the season away, so a tighter street level frame holds the match best. Try searching stone apartment block balconies now.
Avenidas Novas in Lisbon, Portugal
Avenidas Novas shares Chamberí's own wide grid, with five and six storey stone and rendered brick blocks from the same decades. Lisbon's tiled facades and the hillier streets further out are what give it away in a wide shot. Try searching grid street stone block now.
Crocetta in Turin, Italy
Crocetta went up in the same years as Chamberí at a similar five storey block scale, on streets of the same width. Its carved Liberty style door surrounds are more ornate than Chamberí's plainer stonework, so close shots on entrances risk giving away the wrong city. Try searching 1900s five storey block now.
