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.

  • Madrid Airport → Puerta del Sol (City Centre)
    Puerta del Sol Madrid December 2022 01.jpg
    by Various Wikimedia Commons contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia source
  • Madrid Airport → Salamanca district
    Navidad - Calle de Serrano - Madrid - 01.jpg
    by Various Wikimedia Commons contributors · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia source
  • Madrid Airport → Chamartín railway station
    Madrid Chamartin - 50396335423.jpg
    by Wikimedia Commons contributor · CC0 · Wikimedia source
  • Madrid Airport → Malasaña
    Plaza del Dos de Mayo. Malasaña. Madrid (4923512321)
    by Alessio Maffeis from Torino, Italy · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia source
  • Madrid Airport → Chueca
    Plaza de Chueca, Madrid Orgullo 2016
    by Nicolas Vigier · CC0 · Wikimedia source
  • Madrid Airport → La Latina
    Actuacion Castiza - Plaza de la Paja - 2024 - Madrid 15
    by Javier Perez Montes · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia source
  • Madrid Airport → IFEMA Feria de Madrid
    Madrid - Campo de las Naciones, Feria de Madrid (IFEMA) 02
    by Zarateman · CC0 · Wikimedia source
  • Madrid Airport → Santiago Bernabéu Stadium
    Santiago Bernabeu Stadium Front
    by Schumi4ever · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia source
  • Madrid Airport → Segovia
    Segovia - Aqueduct - 2
    by Benjamin Smith · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia source
  • Madrid Airport → El Escorial
    Monasterio de El Escorial, vista nocturna
    by Malopez 21 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia source
  • Madrid Airport → Aranjuez
    Royal Palace in Aranjuez Spain
    by Ввласенко · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia source
  • Madrid Airport → Príncipe Pío station
    Principe Pio station, Madrid, as seen from the cable car
    by Liberaler Humanist · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia source
  • Madrid Airport → Cívitas Metropolitano stadium
    Wanda Metropolitano Stadium Dec 2017 (39ea73b8c7 o)
    by Jose A. · CC BY 2.0 · Wikimedia source
  • Madrid Airport → Royal Palace
    Palacio Real, Madrid, España, 2014-12-27, DD 09
    by Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia source
  • Madrid Airport → Plaza Mayor
    Plaza Mayor, Madrid, España, 2023-01-03, DD 78
    by Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia source
  • Madrid Airport → Retiro Park
    Monumento a Alfonso XII, Parque del Retiro, Madrid, España, 2017-05-18, DD 19
    by Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia source
  • Madrid Airport → Ávila
    Quatro postes and city walls of Avila in winter
    by Zorro2212 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia source
  • Madrid Airport → Gran Vía
    Gran Via Madrid December 2023 03
    by Javier Perez Montes · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia source
  • Madrid Airport → Prado Museum
    Puerta de Velázquez, Museo del Prado, Madrid, España, 2017-05-18, DD 37
    by Diego Delso · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia source
  • Madrid Airport → Lavapiés
    Aida Poppy - 2025 - Calle de Lavapies - Madrid 01
    by Javier Pérez Montes · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia source
  • Madrid Airport → Cuenca
    Cuenca. Hanging Houses. Castilla - La Mancha. Spain (4174600456)
    by Tomás Fano · CC BY-SA 2.0 · Wikimedia source
  • Madrid Airport → Madrid Río
    Parque Lineal del Manzanares - Rio Manzanares - Madrid 01
    by Javier Perez Montes · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia source
  • Madrid Airport → Casa de Campo
    Vista parcial del Lago de la Casa de Campo, Madrid, España
    by siestecita · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia source
  • Madrid Airport → Plaza de España
    Don Quijote - Plaza de España - Madrid 01
    by Javier Perez Montes · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia source
  • Madrid Airport → Reina Sofía Museum
    Museum Reina Sofía Madrid Spain Espana this is a front photo close up at the Queen Sofia Museum in 2011 month of June
    by Daytonarolexboston · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia source
  • Madrid Airport → Valdebebas
    Parque forestal de Valdebebas - Madrid 04
    by Javier Perez Montes · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia source
  • Madrid Airport → Moncloa
    Faro de Moncloa-JJOO-Madrid 2016
    by Carlos Delgado · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia source
  • Madrid Airport → Nuevos Ministerios
    Vaca - Nuevos Ministerios - Madrid 01
    by Javier Perez Montes · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia source
  • Madrid Airport → Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum
    The Assumption of the Virgin, Johann Koerbecke, 1457, Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
    by Gerda Arendt · CC0 · Wikimedia source
  • Madrid Airport → Valle de los Caídos
    Cross atop Valle de los Caídos, Spain-April 2015 2013-06-08 15-14
    by User:Genestavrou · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia source

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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.

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