Valladolid Airport – VLL Valladolid

Valladolid is the capital city of the Castile – Leon area and the airport is around 10 kms outside of the City centre and is airport situated in the municipality of Villanubla. Its IATA code is VLL and operates in CEST time zone. Valladolid Airport typically handles 223,587 passengers per year and has 3 scheduled arrival routes within Spain with no international scheduled routes. During recent years, with the arrival of low-cost airline companies, passenger numbers have increased greatly, particularly in the area of tourist and holiday flights. Valladolid Airport (VLL) has connections with Barcelona, Málaga, and the Canary Islands.

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The airport was opened in 1938 in Villanubla, a small town 11 km from Valladolid. The runway was improved between 1951 and 1952 by installing rigid pavement and the conditions required for landing with no visibility.  Nowadays, the airport’s main features are its clean, functional design, emphasized by spaciousness and numerous aesthetically pleasing elements. It has one runway that allows night landings, and can handle most commercial jumbo jets and long haul transport aircraft and regularly services large turboprop commuters, short and medium haul transport aircraft.

What to Do & Area Attractions

Valladolid is known for its variety of historic houses, palaces, churches, plazas, avenues and parks, hence a lot of tourists flock to the old town from time to time. Accommodation is not a challenge in visiting this place as there are high end hotels nearby the airport, such as the Conde Ansurez which is 4 miles away, 6 miles away is the 4-star NH Valladolid Balago and the famous Washington Parquesol Suites & Hotel, which is a little over 6 miles away.

The nearest airports to Valladolid are Matacan Airport, which is 100.26 km away and the Leon Airport, which is 118.51 Km far.