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How far is the central University of Madrid Campus from the RENFRA train station?

Flying into Madrid and hope to take the AVE train south to Seville. Would like to stop and see the University campus for a short visit but not sure how far it is and how much time I should allow between arriving at the airport and departure on my AVE train. Any help is greatly appreicated! THANKS!!

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1. No such thing a RENFRA...the train service is called RENFE. All stations are RENFE, You want the ATOCHA Station to get to Sevilla. It's pretty far, but you can link up through the metro. Search Maps Madrid, to find a map of the city, find the University...it's in the top right part of the map (depending on the size of the area you look at) and the train station is just to the east of Plaza Mayor, about a mile or two down Gran Vía. Then search Metro Map Madrid, and you should get a metro map....and figure it out. It probably takes less than 20 minutes to get from Atocha to the University, depending on whether you need to change trains or not.
2. Sorry but it's not possible to give you an answer because: There's no such thing as "central University of Madrid Campus". There are several universities (public and private) and several campuses in different places, so we can't guess which one you mean. Then we don't know what day of the week or time you're coming. If it's rush hour, on a bad day a short trip may take forever. There are several RENFE (not RENFRA) stations in Madrid. The one where AVE leaves from is called Estación de Atocha. The best thing you can do when you arrive is skipping a taxi at all, it will cost you a fortune and if it's rusht hour you'll take forever from the airport to the station. You could take the underground from the Airport to Nuevos Ministerios (some 15 minutes) and there take the RENFE Cercanías (commuter trains) from there to Atocha, (around 12-15 minutes) and you'll only have to walk from the commuter platforms to the long distance platforms. Like 3 minutes. That assuming you don't have a lot of luggage. To be on the safe side, I'd give at least 3 hours between flight arrivalt time and train departure time. And this means no visits to any campuses, as none of them are on the way from the Airport to the station. But if your flight is delayed (and you can never know if it will) there's no "safe side", really. And arriving 6 hours earlier and having to wait is no fun. My suggestion is, if you're coming from abroad, it wouldn't cost so much to have a ticket directly to Seville, so you would avoid all the nuisance of picking up your luggages, going to the other end of Madrid with your luggage and taking a train there. Maybe it's not too late to do that