Niño Jesús is the Retiro district's residential neighbourhood par excellence. Facing the park's south-eastern edge, Avenida de Menéndez Pelayo lines up stately buildings with direct views over the green, one of Madrid's most valued front rows.
Inland, the neighbourhood turns intimate: quiet streets, historic colonies of low houses (such as Colonia del Retiro) and a domestic scale that makes it a refuge for families seeking calm without leaving the centre.
The Niño Jesús children's hospital, a national reference, gives the neighbourhood its name. Metro line 9 and the nearby M-30 solve connections, with Retiro Park and Estrella as green borders.
