About Alcobendas / San Sebastián de los Reyes, Madrid

Alcobendas is a city located in the Community of Madrid (Spain). It is located roughly 13 km north of Madrid and 7 km from the Barajas international airport of Madrid. It includes a central urban zone, a recently built district known as Valdelasfuentes, La Moraleja and El Soto de la Moraleja residential zones, the Valdelatas natural reserve and a light industrial zone. A huge high-tech firm area known as Valdelacasa is being built. Home for the Cosmocaixa sciences museum and the Diversia entertainment center, it is also a location of a basketball museum organized by Pedro Ferrándiz Foundation which is a home to FIBA Hall of Fame.

Both Alcobendas and its neighbour city, San Sebastián de los Reyes are communicated with Madrid via buses operated by the 'Interbús' bus company. There are currently eight bus lines that go to and from different districts of Alcobendas to Plaza de Castilla (the bus line central hub for the northern area of Madrid). Alcobendas also has eight bus lines that communicate the different zones of Alcobendas between themselves.

Alcobendas presently has four Metro stations (underground; La Granja, La Moraleja, Marqués de la Valdavia and Manuel de Falla) which all belong to the line 10 of the Madrid Metro network. These stations were recently opened by Esperanza Aguirre (President of the Madrid region).
San Sebastián de los Reyes (colloquially called "Sanse") is a city in the Community of Madrid in Spain. It is located 18 km north of Madrid. The city is twinned with Baunatal in Germany. It is geographically joined with neighboring Alcobendas and they share a common RENFE commuter line to Madrid Atocha. Access by road is also excellent as it lies at the northernmost junctions of the motorway network to Zaragoza, Burgos, Barajas airport, and the Madrid motorway highway. Major industrial companies have branches in San Sebastián de los Reyes, including IKEA, Leroy Merlin, PC City, Selther, Carrefour, Alternate, Media Markt, Telepizza, Antena 3, and many more.


Alcobendas, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Alcobendas&oldid=260573294 (last visited Feb. 6, 2009).

San Sebastián de los Reyes, http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=San_Sebasti%C3%A1n_de_los_Reyes&oldid=261111879 (last visited Feb. 6, 2009).







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