The central Retiro district will receive this 2025 about 6 million euros from the different areas of the Madrid City Council. Much of that investment will be for Continue improving the world heritage of the Light Landscape. Specifically, working on the Boulevard of Alcalá Street that will connect the Plaza de Cibeles with the Plaza de la Independencia and the Paseo del Prado will be improved. The construction of an elderly center is also expected.
More than two million euros will take care of the Unesco World Heritage. The City Council of the Capital The Boulevard of Alcalá Street will begin that will connect the Plaza de Cibeles with the Plaza de la Independencia. The planned investment is a million and a half of euros for the works that will begin in June 2025. The municipal government foresees a year later -at the end of May 2026 -, so it includes a 1.6 million item for 2026 to finish the artery of the center of Madrid.
Seven meters and a half will separate the traffic lanes and receive the pedestrians. With this project, the Madrid City Council intends to favor the tourist use of this space, as well as “Increase pedestrian space without affecting mobility”as announced by the mayor, José Luis Martínez-Almeida. The circulation lanes for cars to two directions will be reduced, which are currently four in the direction of Cibeles and three in the direction of Alcalá.
The improvement of the landscape of light will continue with the intervention on the Paseo del Prado. At the moment, the performance will have to wait for something else, because for this year the game is 575,000 euros for the drafting of the project. This environment has received several proposals to also reduce traffic but none has yet materialized. The bulk of the works will be carried out in 2026, for which the Consistory includes 2.9 million euros and 990,000 euros in 2027.
On Téllez Street, 2, cranes began working in March 2024 to build A day center for older people with physical or cognitive deterioration. This year, just over a million euros in the area of works and equipment will allow the facilities to be completed. They will be distributed in four levels, one of them under flush and one of the most prominent aspects will be a therapeutic garden.
Another important amount of investment in retirement will be for the headquarters of the municipal government. 1.7 million euros to improve air conditioning and electrical installations of the Cibeles Palace.
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