Renfe is the state-owned company which operates freight and passenger trains since 1941. The original façade faces Plaza del Emperador Carlos V, a site at which a variety of streets converge, including the Calle de Atocha, Paseo del Prado, Paseo de la Infanta Isabel, Avenida de la Ciudad de Barcelona, Calle de Méndez Álvaro, Paseo de las Delicias, Paseo de Santa María de la Cabeza, and Ronda de Atocha.Ītocha station is a railway complex, formed by the Madrid Atocha Cercanías and Madrid Puerta de Atocha stations of Spain's national railways and a station of the Madrid underground called Atocha-Renfe. The station is in the Atocha neighborhood of the district of Arganzuela. As of 2019, this station has daily services to Marseille, France. These train services are run by Spain's national rail company, Renfe. It is the largest station serving commuter trains ( Cercanías), regional trains from the south and southeast, intercity trains from Navarre, Cádiz and Huelva ( Andalusia) and La Rioja, and the AVE high speed trains from Girona, Tarragona and Barcelona ( Catalonia), Huesca and Zaragoza ( Aragon), Sevilla, Córdoba, Málaga and Granada ( Andalusia), Valencia, Castellón and Alicante ( Levante Region). Madrid Atocha ( Spanish: Estación de Madrid Atocha), also named Madrid Puerta de Atocha–Almudena Grandes, is the first major railway station in Madrid.

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