ALCOBENDAS, LA CIUDAD

• Alcobendas is located to 12 kilometers to the north of Madrid and to five of the airport of Barajas. It has a population of 104,000 inhabitants, of who a 50% are smaller of 30 years. Alcobendas is a young city, that bets by the culture and the sport, and that in addition constitutes a neuralgic center of businesses in the Community of Madrid.

• The city counts on excellent sociocultural infrastructures, like the Theater Audience, an inescapable datum point for the Madrilenian public in the scope of the scenic arts. The Cultural Center Pablo Churches is another innovating space, in which the citizens have to their disposition all the supports of the knowledge and the culture in a unique supply in the municipal scope.

• The visitors of Alcobendas are themselves surprised by the project “Art in the City”, the exhibition of outdoors more important public sculpture of the existing ones in Spain. Of between all the figures he emphasizes the Menina, of Manolo Valdés, turned the symbol of the city. Also he has his seat in Alcobendas the museum of Science, Cosmocaixa, one of most important of Europe.

• Alcobendas also emphasizes by its green zones. Account with 33 parks public, whose approximate surface is of 1.500.000 square meters, which represents 15 square meters of green zone by inhabitant, a ratio that surpasses much in the average national and who was worth to him in 1989 the prize that grants the European Union to the care of environment.

• It excels the Garden of the Fertile valley. It is an emblematic park, designed with a didactic aim in the style of a botanical garden, with object to teach to respect and love by the nature to the future generations. In this park the Japanese Garden is, constructed according to one of the principles of the traditional Japanese gardening, and the Museum of the Bonsai, where units of great spectacularity can be contemplated. Another element of the maximum interest in the park is the Bell of World-wide La Paz, retort of the installed one in the seat of United Nations.

•The economic activity is concentrated in the urban helmet, with the greater supply of commerce and services; in the industrial estate, where they have his seat more than 700 companies, and in both enterprise parks of the Moral and the Stream of the Fertile valley, where residential zones coexist, of leisure and business that are to the vanguard in Europe. In addition, Alcobendas counts on Sello de European Excelencia by the quality in the management.


THE SPORT IN NUMBERS

• The sport has gone together with the transformation that Alcobendas has experienced 25 years in the last. The sport facilities are a symbol of identification with the city and its quality of life.

• 92% of the population know the facilities sport.

• 70% of the citizens of Alcobendas use the municipal sport facilities. In 2005 more than 55,000 people it does regularly every week.

• In Alcobendas 131 sport associations and 2 sport foundations coexist, Fundación Deporte Alcobendas (FUNDAL), dedicated to the development of the sport of high competition, and the Ferrándiz Foundation, center of documentation and investigation of the basketball that lodges the Hall of Fame (Hall FAMA) of the FIBA in Europe.

• The sport facilities occupy an extension of 470,300 m2 (5m2/habitante).

• In addition, the sport equipment are the municipal services better valued by the citizens, with an average note of 8 on 10.

Alcobendas is:

• Prize Superior Advice of Sport 1983 y 2006.
• National prize of Sport Quality Sports Quality 1988.
• Special mention of the Latin American Prize of Quality 2000 .
• Telemadrid prize to sport 2003 .
• Prize Seven Stars 2004 of the Community from Madrid to the Foundation Deports Alcobendas .

MUNICIPAL SPORT FACILITIES

• The sport activity in Alcobendas articulates around two great sport complexes and other four main polideportivas facilities:

- Municipal Polideportivo (185,000 m2)
- Sport city Valdelasfuentes (165,000 m2)
- Stopped Antela pavilion
- Reconciled pavilion Severe Ochoa
- Pavilion Pedro Ferrándiz
- Loquacious pavilion Alonso Lopez
- As complement of these other 135,000 facilities m2 of sport zones located in parks and schools exist public in whom an ample range of sport specialties can be practiced:

- 6 covered polideportivos pavilions next to scholastic centers.

- 5 football grounds and 1 of rugby.

- 63 polideportivas tracks in schools and parks public .

- 21 gymnasiums and rooms covered in schools public.