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Photo Credits

Every photograph on this site is a Creative Commons-licensed work from Wikimedia Commons. We chose CC over generic stock because Commons photographers volunteer real, in-place images — actual platforms at Adolfo Suárez Madrid–Barajas, real plazas in Salamanca, the genuine cloister at El Escorial. This page is our thank-you to the photographers and a transparent record of every credit we owe them.

46photographs credited
35contributors thanked
6license types

Service & guide pages

These are the hero photographs for the airport-service pages — taxis, trains, terminals, hotels, layover, parking and the rest. They depict the spaces and vehicles travellers actually meet on the ground at Madrid–Barajas.

Route guides (Madrid Airport → destination)

These photographs introduce each destination guide — from city-centre neighbourhoods (Sol, Salamanca, Malasaña) to day-trips into Castile (Toledo, Ávila, El Escorial, Segovia, Cuenca). Where possible we picked images that show the place from a pedestrian's eye-level, not a tourism brochure angle.

License types in use on this site

CC BY
Attribution required. You may reuse the work for any purpose, including commercial, provided you credit the photographer.
CC BY-SA
Attribution + ShareAlike. Same as CC BY, but any derivative work must be released under the same licence.
CC0 / Public domain
The photographer waived copyright. Attribution is not required, but we credit anyway because it's the right thing to do.

License version numbers (2.0, 3.0, 4.0) refer to revisions of the Creative Commons text. They differ in detail but share the same core principle: credit the maker.

Our attribution policy

All photographs are credited inline on this page with: the photographer's name (as published on Wikimedia Commons), the licence under which they released the work, and a link back to the original file on Commons. Images have been resized and re-encoded as WebP for page performance; we do not alter the content of the photograph itself.

If you are the rights holder of an image used on this site and would like to discuss the credit line, the licence, or removal, please reach out via our contact page. We respond within five business days.