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Madrid is a fairly easy city to travel around once you know the metros well.LIKE Barcelona, Bilbao and Valencia, the quickest way to get around the city is using the metros, although they are fairly crowded during rush hours. No smoking is permitted on metro trains or in stations, which are clean and fairly safe.
Crime is generally rare on Spanish metros, although you should watch out for pickpockets especially on the Madrid system. 
Madrid has the largest and oldest metro system in Spain with 12 lines and more than 160 stations covering most of the city, operating from 6.05am, through the clock, until 2am and used by some 565 million people a year.
Eight lines run within Zone A only and three of them run between Zone A and Zone B (B1, B2, B3) and one line (Line 12) runs only between Zone B1 and B2.
On Friday and Saturday nights, a night bus service runs on the same routes as the Metro lines once these have closed for the evening. This service, inaugurated in 2006, is known as the BuhoMetro. The BuhoMetro is easy to spot and relatively easy for first-time Buho riders – bus number L4 will run the same route as Metro Line 4.
A single trip fare within Madrid city (zone A) is EUR 1 and EUR 6.70 for a 10-journey ticket. In addition, 1-day, 2-day, 3-day, 5-day and 7-day tourist tickets are also available.
You can buy these tickets at Metro stations and tobaccos (tobacconists). You can use them on the Metro, EMT red city buses and the Buhos.
Monthly or annual season tickets are available for young people aged under 21 (abono joven), commuters (abono normal) and for pensioners over 64 (abono tercera edad). Season tickets offer exceptionally good savings for unlimited travel on public transport including the underground, city buses and local trains (cercanías). Pensioners who pay only EUR 9 a month for unlimited travel get a particularly good deal.
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