This is the municipal swimming pool in Madrid that will be closed throughout the summer

The time has come to take a dip. Although these days in many parts of Spain storms and a plummeting drop in thermometers reign, the calendar indicates that summer is near. As there is no beach in Madrid, the residents historically resort to the large number of municipal swimming pools spread throughout the capital to combat the heat every summer.

Most of Madrid's municipal centers have outdoor facilities and many of them with summer swimming pools, which this year open on Saturday, May 13 (ahead of the San Isidro festival).. The first day of opening will be free admission for all audiences. The season will last until September 9.

Despite the joy that this causes many, there are those who feel like a jug of cold water (and never better said) since the swimming pools in certain districts will be closed. It is the residents of Moratalaz, Fuencarral, El Pardo, Tetuán and Moncloa-Aravaca who will not be able to enjoy some of their pools, at least during the start of the season, because they are under construction.

Proposition “urgently”

The most notorious case is that of the swimming pool at the Vicente del Bosque Sports Center in Fuencarral-El Pardo, which will not open this summer either.. The last year he did it was in 2021. And the indoor pool is also closed until further notice, as announced on the Madrid City Council website.. Something that the neighbors denounced for months: “Cracks, deterioration and lack of investment”.

These are the reasons that, according to the residents of the area, keep the facilities closed. In January of this year, the plenary session of the municipal board approved a proposal presented by the La Flor Neighborhood Association in which it was requested “urgently” that the deficiencies be analyzed and the repairs of the swimming pools be carried out, sufficiently in advance of the opening season.

Likewise, from Más Madrid they have denounced the “bleeding case” of El Quijote, a swimming pool that facilitates the service to Tetuán and Moncloa and that has been closed for the entire legislature. “55 large trees have been loaded, part of the meadow has disappeared and they have reduced the size of the pool,” they indicate..

What municipal swimming pools are open?

• Penuelas (Arganzuela)
• Blanca Fernandez Ochoa (Carabanchel)
• vegetable garden
• Aluche (Latin)
• Country House (Moncloa)
• José María Cagigal (Moncloa-Aravaca)
• The Elipa (Moratalaz)
• Moratalaz
• Entrevías (Vallecas Bridge)
• Dovecotes (Vallecas Bridge)
• Saint Blaise
• Orcasitas (Usera)
• Margot Moles (Vicálvaro)
• Almodóvar Hill (Villa de Vallecas)
• Silver and Chestnut (Villaverde)
• Santa Ana (Fuencarral – El Pardo)
• Vallecas (Vallecas Bridge)
• Conception (Linear City)
• San Fermin (Usera)
• Francos Rodríguez (Moncloa and Tetuan)
• Ángel Nieto (Vallecas Bridge)