Arévalo and La Moraña to Barajas, the Madrid stations and Valladolid airport: the A-6 in both directions, the Arévalo train and which way out suits each flight

Where is La Moraña and why does it look to Madrid and Valladolid at once?

La Moraña is the cereal-growing plain in the north of Ávila province, with Arévalo as its hub, its Mudéjar old town above the Adaja and Arevalillo rivers, and Madrigal de las Altas Torres, the walled town where Isabella the Catholic was born, further west. It lies halfway between Ávila and Valladolid and, as the province page says, its residents split between the two for hospital care and paperwork. For longer trips geography rules: Arévalo sits right by the A-6, which southwards runs down to Madrid via Villacastín and the Guadarrama tunnel without touching the city of Ávila, and northwards continues to Medina del Campo, Tordesillas and Valladolid. That makes La Moraña the only district in the province that chooses between two airports and two high-speed stations with a motorway on its doorstep.

Arévalo station is on the conventional line linking Ávila with Medina del Campo and Valladolid, the same one that enters Madrid via El Escorial. It is useful for going down to Ávila or up to Medina and Valladolid on a Media Distancia train, but it is not a practical way out for a flight: to Madrid the train takes longer than the car on the A-6 and ends at Chamartín, to Valladolid it stops at Campo Grande, and in neither case does it reach a terminal. Madrigal has no station and its bus runs only a few times a day. The province page sums it up for the whole of Ávila: the trains are conventional and infrequent, so missing one can mean waiting hours, and it is best to leave with a margin, above all from La Moraña in winter.

How do you get from Arévalo and Madrigal to Barajas along the A-6?

From Arévalo you join the A-6 and head down towards Madrid: Adanero, Villacastín, the Guadarrama tunnel (on that stretch the road is the AP-6, with tolls) and the A-6 to the edge of the capital. For Barajas there is no need to enter the city: from the A-6 you take the M-40 or M-50 and skirt Madrid to the airport, arriving at the terminal named in the booking. The driver leaves with the terminal's margin and a sense of the hour, because the M-40 early on a weekday is not the same as on a Saturday. From Madrigal de las Altas Torres the journey starts on district roads to Arévalo and the A-6: to Barajas it is 168 km and about 130 min.

The alternatives have their limits. In your own car the journey is the same, but you add the AP-6 toll in both directions and parking at Barajas for the days of the trip, which for a week costs more than the return transfer, and leaving the family car at the airport leaves whoever stays in the village without one. The A-6 coach links Arévalo with Madrid, but drops you at Moncloa, from where you still have to cross the city by metro to the terminal with luggage. The train means changing at Chamartín onto Cercanías. The transfer with a driver collects at your front door in Arévalo, Madrigal or any village in La Moraña, charges per car and not per person, and fixes the price before booking; on the way back the driver waits in arrivals with a sign, following the flight if it is delayed.

And to Chamartín, Atocha or IFEMA: the direct car or the train with a change?

For an AVE leaving from Chamartín or Atocha, the Arévalo train means reaching Chamartín on a conventional train and, if the AVE leaves from Atocha, crossing Madrid by Cercanías with the luggage and a margin that does not always exist. The direct car comes in on the A-6 and arrives at the departure station with the train number on the booking: Arévalo to Chamartín is 126 km, from 161,20 €, and to Atocha a little more, through the city. For a trade fair at IFEMA, next to Barajas, the route is the same as the airport's along the M-40, and for the Estación Sur coach station at Méndez Álvaro, Atocha's. In every case the drop-off is at the door and not in a distant car park.

There is one case in which La Moraña does not need to go to Madrid to catch an AVE: Valladolid Campo Grande, north along the A-6, has high-speed services to Madrid and to the north, and from there connects with Burgos, the Basque Country, Palencia, León and Galicia. For Madrid the AVE from Valladolid makes no sense from Arévalo, because it would mean going up to then come down, but for travelling north it is the logical way out, and the same goes for the Segovia-Guiomar AVE towards Madrid, reached from Arévalo along the N-110 or the A-6 and Villacastín. The guide for the city of Ávila explains the train and the AP-6 from the city; from La Moraña the sums change because the A-6 is on the doorstep and Ávila is off to one side.

When is Valladolid airport the better choice over Barajas?

Valladolid airport is at Villanubla, north-west of the city and beside the A-62, and from Arévalo it is reached along the A-6 to Tordesillas or on the Medina del Campo road. Its offer is small and changes by season: a few domestic destinations and the odd international flight in the summer months, with frequencies published by Aena. When the flight you need leaves from Villanubla, it is La Moraña's most convenient option, because the airport is small, the car park is in front of the terminal and the trip from Arévalo is short and flat: to the city of Valladolid it is about 64 min from Arévalo, and from Madrigal you pass through Arévalo first, 27 km away. The transfer with a driver also covers Villanubla, even though the published route page is Valladolid's: you name the airport as the destination when booking.

Barajas wins on everything else: flights to almost any destination, several departures a day to the European capitals and a timetable that fills the whole day, the small hours included. For most trips from La Moraña the choice is made not by distance but by the ticket: first check whether the flight exists from Valladolid and, if not, head down to Barajas. There is a third criterion, the hour: for a flight leaving Barajas first thing in the morning no train or coach from Arévalo arrives in time, and an early-morning transfer from home avoids sleeping in Madrid the night before. In winter, with fog on the plateau or snow at the Guadarrama tunnel, the driver leaves with a margin and knows the state of the A-6 before setting off.

How do you book the transfer from a village in La Moraña?

You book on the website or in the app with the exact pickup address, the destination, the date and time or the flight or train number, and the price appears fixed before confirming. For the small villages of La Moraña it is worth adding a landmark, the square or the road in, because the satnav does not always know the house numbers of a village of a hundred people. If several people are leaving from different villages for the same flight, a single service is booked with the stops and the calculator gives the full price. You can ask for an invoice and, for a business in Arévalo or a cooperative in the district, a business account with a monthly invoice; what each option includes is on the help page.

On the way back, the booking carries the flight or train number and the driver follows the actual arrival: they wait in the arrivals hall at Barajas or at the station door with a sign bearing the passenger's name, and drive up the A-6 to Arévalo or Madrigal whatever the hour, including the small hours, when the district has no public transport at all. What happens if the flight is cancelled or the time has to change is in the help pieces linked at the end. One last note from the district: during Arévalo's fiestas and on market days there are closures in the Mudéjar old town, and it is best to set the pickup on a street open to traffic, not in the square.

Frequently asked questions

Sources

• Aena · Aeropuerto Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas (consulted on 27 October 2026)
• Aena · Aeropuerto de Valladolid (Villanubla): destinos y servicios (consulted on 27 October 2026)
• Renfe · Media Distancia y alta velocidad con parada en Arévalo y Valladolid Campo Grande (consulted on 27 October 2026)
• Diputación de Ávila · La Moraña, Arévalo y Madrigal de las Altas Torres (consulted on 27 October 2026)