Príncipe Pío (Madrid Metro) Príncipe Pío (Madrid Metro) Príncipe Pío (formerly Estación del Norte) is a multimodal station in Madrid, Spain that services Madrid Metro Line 6, Line 10, and Ramal, Cercanías Madrid commuter rail lines C-1, C-7, and C-10, as well as city buses and intercity and long-distance coaches. It is located next to the River Manzanares between the San Vicente roundabout, the Cuesta de San Vicente, the Paseo de la Florida, and the Paseo del Rey in the district of Moncloa-Aravaca. It is one of the busiest stations in the Madrid Metro and Cercanías systems. Príncipe Pío's train station has three levels.
Madrid sector employs 18.1% of all employees. Madrid attracts about 8M tourists annually from other parts of Spain and from all over the world, exceeding even Barcelona. Spending by tourists in Madrid was estimated (2011) at €9,546.5M, or 7.7% of the city's GDP. The construction of transport infrastructure has been vital to maintain the economic position of Madrid. Travel to work and other local journeys use a high-capacity metropolitan road network and a well-used public transport system. In terms of longer-distance transport, Madrid is the central node of the system of "autovías" and of the high-speed rail network (AVE), which has