Alcobendas, Madrid, Spain

🇪🇸 Alcobendas is a municipality located in the Community of Madrid, central Spain. It is located roughly 13 km (8 mi) north of Madrid and 7 km (4 mi) from Barajas International Airport. 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 nature reserve and a light industrial estate. A business park called Valdelacasa for high-tech firms is being built. It is the location of a basketball museum organised by the Pedro Ferrándiz Foundation where the FIBA Hall of Fame is located. Once a working class area, Alcobendas has become one of the more economically affluent suburban areas of the Madrid metropolitan area and also contains the exclusive residential area of La Moraleja.

History The settlement was first documented in a 1208 border delimitation between the lands of Segovia and Madrid. In 1369, the Castilian Crown gifted the village to the Mendozas, later passing to control of the Arias Dávila family. The population boomed after 1960.

Transport Alcobendas lies within CRTM's B1 fare zone for passenger transport.

Both Alcobendas and its neighbour city, San Sebastián de los Reyes are connected with Madrid with 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 hub for public transport to northern Madrid). Alcobendas also has eight bus lines that connect the different zones of Alcobendas between themselves.

Transport: Metro Alcobendas presently has four Metro stations (La Granja, La Moraleja, Marqués de la Valdavia and Manuel de Falla) which are all on line 10 of the Madrid Metro network. These stations were recently opened by Esperanza Aguirre, former President of the Autonomous Community of Madrid.

Transport: Bus Buses going to and from Plaza de Castilla are: • 151 Madrid (Pza. Castilla) - Alcobendas (FF.CC) • 153 Madrid (Pza. Castilla) - Alcobendas (Rosa Luxemburgo) • 153B a.k.a. B53 Madrid (Pinar de Chamartín) - Alcobendas (Rosa Luxemburgo) • 155 Madrid (Pza. Castilla) - Alcobendas (El Soto de la Moraleja) • 155B a.k.a. B55 Madrid (Pza. Castilla) - Alcobendas (El Encinar de los Reyes) • 157 Madrid (Pza. Castilla) - Alcobendas (Pº de la Chopera) • 157C a.k.a. C57 Madrid (Pza. Castilla) - Alcobendas (Valdelasfuentes) • 159 Madrid (Pza. Castilla) - Alcobendas (Arroyo de la Vega)

Buses connecting different parts of Alcobendas are: • L-1 Arroyo de la Vega - El Soto de la Moraleja - La Moraleja • L-2 Alcobendas - La Moraleja [via Pº Alcobendas] • L-3 Arroyo de la Vega - El Soto de la Moraleja - El Encinar de los Reyes • L-5 San Sebastián de los Reyes - Alcobendas - El Soto de la Moraleja • L-6 Valdelasfuentes (FF.CC) - Polígono Industrial • L-9 Alcobendas (FF.CC) - Arroyo de la Vega

Two further circular lines are: • C10 Valdelasfuentes - Arroyo de la Vega - Valdelasfuentes • C11 Arroyo de la Vega - Valdelasfuentes - Arroyo de la Vega

Train Alcobendas also has two suburban railway stations (one shared with San Sebastián de los Reyes): • Valdelasfuentes and • Alcobendas-San Sebastián de los Reyes.

Both form part of the C-4a Cercanías line and can get to Sol and Atocha in half an hour.

Private transport Multiple motorways are going through and around Alcobendas, making the municipality easily accessible by car. The M-12 motorway connects Alcobendas with the Canillejas district of Madrid and Barajas International Airport.

List of motorways and main roads that go through Alcobendas: • A-1-Autovía del Norte • R-2-Radial 2 (Madrid-Guadalajara) • M-50-Autopista M-50 • M-12-Autopista Eje-Aeropuerto • M-603-Carretera de Fuencarral a Alcobendas • M-616-Carretera de El Pardo a Alcobendas

The availability of parking spaces in Alcobendas varies depending on the district. In the Casco district it is challenging to find a parking space, but newer districts have more parking infrastructure, making it easier to find a parking space.

Economy Air Madrid previously had its head office in Alcobendas until the company ceased operations in 2006.

Education • Colegio Suizo de Madrid • Brains International School • International College Spain • Kings College (Alcobendas campus) • Padre Manyanet School • Protestant Faculty of Theology at Madrid (UEBE) • Saint-Exupéry campus of the Lycée Français de Madrid • Scandinavian School in Madrid • Runnymede College.

Sport In 2010, Alcobendas was to be the host city of the 2010 CIRH Women's World Cup, the most important competition in Women's Roller Hockey.