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Staying around Plaza de Santa Ana: hotels, walks and nightlife
The short answer
Choose Plaza de Santa Ana if you want sights and the Cercanías station within a few minutes on foot and accept dense mapped nightlife: 65 bars, pubs and nightclubs sit within 250 m. It suits short city breaks on foot; skip it if you need a street with few venues. The catch: venue counts are a proxy, not measured noise, and the sampled ground rises 23 m toward the north.
Quick facts
- Night-noise risk
- High
- 65 bars, pubs and clubs within 250 m
- Climb
- 23 m
- 657 to 680 m across 9 points
- Metro walk
- 5 min
- to Cercanías
- Hotels mapped
- 30
- within 500 m in OpenStreetMap
Who it suits, who should skip it
Good for
- Visitors who want mapped sights and a rail stop within a few minutes' walk of the plaza
- Travellers who like to compare many mapped hotels within 500 m of one point
- Guests happy to read the ring samples before choosing a side of the plaza
Skip it if
- You need a street with few mapped venues: 65 bars, pubs and nightclubs sit within 250 m
- You want proof of low noise; this evidence is a venue count only
- You need route-level gradient detail; the data holds only sampled elevations
Where to stay around the plaza
Plaza de Santa Ana is the anchor, and the closest mapped lodgings are within a few steps: Miau is 59 m away, Hostal Petite Maman 67 m and Room Mate Alicia Hotel 71 m. OpenStreetMap lists 30 hotels within 500 m, so the exact address matters more than the distance.
Addresses cluster on Calle del Príncipe, Calle del Prado and Calle de las Huertas, among others. The north-east ring sample maps 10 venues within 250 m, against 58 at the south-east sample, so that side of the plaza maps fewer bars. Names and addresses are as tagged, not verified.
Getting around on foot
The nearest mapped rail stop is Cercanías, 286 m from the anchor, about a 5-minute walk by our estimate of 1.3 times the straight line at 80 m a minute. The data holds no line names for it, so check the operator's map for the services you need.
Mapped sights are close: the García Lorca statue is 26 m away, the Calderón de la Barca statue 41 m and Tablao Flamenco 1911 is 78 m away, about a 2-minute walk. These are estimates from the anchor, not routed journeys from any hotel.
Noise at night: what the map shows
Within 250 m of the anchor, OpenStreetMap maps 46 bars, 13 pubs and 6 nightclubs, 65 venues in all, which our scale labels high. That is a count of mapped venues, not a measurement of sound, and it says nothing about opening hours.
The ring samples vary widely: 58 at the south-east point, 43 at the south, 31 at the east and 10 at the north-east. The west maps 23, the south-west 16, and the north and north-west 25 each. These are compass-labelled points, not named streets.
Hills and walking
Sampled elevations run from 657 m to 680 m, a 23 m spread. The anchor sits at 661 m, the highest sample is the north ring point at 680 m, and the lowest is the south-west point at 657 m.
The nearest rail stop is mapped at 660 m, a 1 m difference from the anchor. This is a sampled elevation range, not route climb or an accessibility assessment, so it does not describe the gradient of any particular street.
Hotels mapped nearby
30 hotels are tagged in OpenStreetMap within 500 m of Plaza de Santa Ana; the nearest 12 are shown. Names, stars and addresses are exactly as tagged, nearest first.
Miau
No stars tagged in OpenStreetMap
Calle del Príncipe 26 28012 Madrid
59 m away, about 1 min on foot
Hostal Petite Maman
No stars tagged in OpenStreetMap
Calle del Príncipe 18 28012 Madrid
67 m away, about 2 min on foot
Room Mate Alicia Hotel
★★★Stars as tagged in OpenStreetMap
Calle del Prado 2 28014 Madrid
71 m away, about 2 min on foot
Room Mate Alba
★★★★Stars as tagged in OpenStreetMap
Calle de las Huertas 16 28014 Madrid
117 m away, about 2 min on foot
Madrisol
No stars tagged in OpenStreetMap
Calle de Núñez de Arce 1 28012 Madrid
121 m away, about 2 min on foot
Hostal Prieto
No stars tagged in OpenStreetMap
Calle de la Cruz 14
123 m away, about 2 min on foot
Hotel Catalonia Las Cortes
★★★★Stars as tagged in OpenStreetMap
Calle del Prado 6 28014 Madrid
124 m away, about 3 min on foot
NH Palacio de Tepa
★★★★★Stars as tagged in OpenStreetMap
Calle de San Sebastián 2 28012 Madrid
129 m away, about 3 min on foot
JC Rooms Santa Ana
No stars tagged in OpenStreetMap
Calle de la Cruz 8 28014 Madrid
147 m away, about 3 min on foot
Apart-Hotel Suite Prado
No stars tagged in OpenStreetMap
Calle de Manuel Fernández y González 10 28014 Madrid
149 m away, about 3 min on foot
Gran Hotel Inglés
★★★★★Stars as tagged in OpenStreetMap
Calle de Echegaray 8 28014 Madrid
150 m away, about 3 min on foot
Ibis Styles Madrid Prado
No stars tagged in OpenStreetMap
Calle del Prado 11 28014 Madrid
152 m away, about 3 min on foot
Where it is
The area this guide covers: The blocks within 500 m of the plaza's mapped centre point, which is where the hotel search stopped. The edges are compass sample rings, not official neighbourhood limits. An editorial outline, not an official district line.
Nearby
Sights on foot
- Estatua de Federico García Lorca
- Estatua Calderón de la Barca
- San Juan de la Cruz
- Vicente Carducho
- Colegio de los Ingleses
- Tablao Flamenco 1911
- Francisco de Rojas Zorrilla
- Juan Pedro Arnal
More street guides nearby
How these numbers were measured
| Sampled point | Venues within 250 m | Elevation |
|---|---|---|
| Plaza de Santa AnaThe anchor: distances on this page start here | 6546 bars, 13 pubs, 6 nightclubs | 661 m |
| North ring sample | 25 | 680 m |
| North-east ring sample | 10 | 671 m |
| East ring sample | 31 | 661 m |
| South-east ring sample | 58 | 662 m |
| South ring sample | 43 | 661 m |
| South-west ring sample | 16 | 657 m |
| West ring sample | 23 | 666 m |
| North-west ring sample | 25 | 666 m |
- Night-noise risk counts places tagged as bars, pubs and nightclubs in OpenStreetMap within 250 m: low under 8, medium from 8 or with any nightclub, high from 25 or with 3 nightclubs. It counts mapped venues; it does not measure sound.
- Walking times take the straight-line distance, add 30% for the street network and assume 80 m a minute, rounded up. They are estimates, not routes.
- Climb is the spread between the highest and the lowest sampled point in Copernicus DEM GLO-90 via the Open-Meteo Elevation API. Terrain models average the ground into cells, so a few metres either way are within their error.
- Searched on 13 Oct 2026: the metro within 1.2 km, hotels within 500 m. A place missing from OpenStreetMap is missing here too.
Questions and answers
How far is the nearest rail stop from Plaza de Santa Ana?
The nearest mapped stop is Cercanías, 286 m from the anchor, about a 5-minute walk by our estimate. No line names are in the data, and the walk is measured from the plaza rather than from a hotel.
How many bars are near Plaza de Santa Ana?
OpenStreetMap maps 46 bars, 13 pubs and 6 nightclubs within 250 m, 65 in total. This counts mapped venues only and does not measure sound or opening hours.
Which hotel is nearest the plaza?
Miau is the nearest mapped hotel at 59 m, about a 1-minute walk, followed by Hostal Petite Maman at 67 m. Names and addresses are as tagged in OpenStreetMap and not verified, so check details with each property.
How hilly is the area around Plaza de Santa Ana?
Sampled elevations range from 657 m to 680 m, a 23 m spread, with the highest point on the north ring sample. The nearest rail stop is mapped 1 m lower than the anchor.