San Sebastian de los Reyes

San Sebastián de los Reyes municipality
town hall
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Basic data
Autonomous Community :	Madrid
Comarca :	Area metropolitana de Madrid
Coordinates	40 ° 33 ′  N , 3 ° 38 ′  W Coordinates: 40 ° 33 ′  N , 3 ° 38 ′  W
Height :	705  msnm
Area :	59.26 km²
Residents :	89,276 (Jan 1, 2019)
Population density :	1,506.51 inhabitants / km²
Founding:	1492
Postal code :	E-28701 to E-28703, E-28706 to E-28709
Municipality number  ( INE ):	28134
administration
Mayor :	Manuel Ángel Fernández Mateo ( PP ) (2007)
Website :	www.ssreyes.org
Location of the municipality

San Sebastián de los Reyes (commonly referred to as Sanse ; abbreviation: SSRR) is a suburb of Madrid , about 18 kilometers north of it. It has 89,276 inhabitants (as of January 1, 2019) and is located at an altitude of 705 meters; the area is 59.26 km². The development has grown together with that of the neighboring town of Alcobendas . The two cities are separated by the Spain avenue (Avenida de España). The buildings on one side of the street belong to Alcobendas, those of the other to Sanse.

San Sebastián de los Reyes has been connected to Madrid since 2001 by the Cercanías suburban railway (line C-1 to Madrid-Atocha and Alcalá de Henares ) and the A1 motorway . The M-50 and the paid R2 link San Sebastián de los Reyes with large parts of the region. The city has a very well developed bus network, through which it is also connected to Madrid and many neighboring places. Since April 2007, San Sebastián de los Reyes has been connected to the Madrid Metro network by line 10 .

history

San Sebastián de los Reyes was founded in 1488. Some families fled the city of Alcobendas under pressure from Baron D. Juan Arias de Ávila. The city bears the title “de los Reyes” because it was granted city rights by the Catholic Kings . These granted the rights so that the baron's power would not become too great with the only condition that a memorial for San Sebastián be built.

Agriculture was the only economic factor in the city until well into the 20th century. After San Sebastián de los Reyes grew enormously in the 1970s, like almost all of Madrid's peripheral cities, there are now well over 2500 companies and headquarters there, including many international companies.

Regular events

The fiestas are among the most spectacular in Spain. As in Pamplona , bull runs are held every morning with the bulls who fight in the arena in the afternoon. Because of the quality and extent of these runs and fights, San Sebastián de los Reyes is sometimes called Pamplona chica (Little Pamplona).

Town twinning

• Baunatal , Germany

sons and daughters of the town

• Miguel Ángel Martín Perdiguero (* 1972), racing cyclist

swell

1. ↑ Cifras oficiales de población resultantes de la revisión del Padrón municipal a 1 de enero . Population statistics from the Instituto Nacional de Estadística (population update).
2. ↑ http://www.madrid.org/desvan/almudena/FichaMunicipal.icm?codMunZona=1343
3. ↑ City of Baunatal - San Sebastián de Los Reyes ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 

Web links

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