San Sebastián de los Reyes (colloquially called "Sanse") is a municipality in the

Community of Madrid The Community of Madrid (; es, Comunidad de Madrid ) is one of the seventeen autonomous communities of Spain. It is located in the centre of the Iberian Peninsula, and of the Central Plateau (''Meseta Central''). Its capital and largest munic ...

, Spain. Founded in 1492, it is located north of

Madrid Madrid ( , ) is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), and ...

Geography

(San Sebastián de los Reyes & Alcobendas) Madrid ESA354454 (cropped)

It forms an urban continuum with the neighboring Alcobendas,

Transport

San Sebastián de los Reyes, having direct communication with the A-1 motorway, has a connection with several bus lines that connect the city with

and several towns in the Sierra Norte of Madrid. This line buses, along with urban ones, are the following: * Urban line 2: Alcobendas -

La Moraleja La Moraleja is an affluent residential district of Alcobendas municipality in northern Community of Madrid, Spain, in the Madrid metropolitan area; located next to El Soto and El Encinar de los Reyes. The Spanish version of Greenwich, it is home ...

(by Paseo de Alcobendas) (Interbús) * Urban line 4: Sports Center - Moscatelares (Interbús) * Urban line 5: San Sebastián de los Reyes - Alcobendas - El Soto de la Moraleja (Interbús) * Urban line 7: Alcobendas train station - Polígonos - Alcobendas train station (Interbús) * Urban line 8: Alcobendas (train station) - Alcobendas (Arroyo de la Vega) (Interbús) * 151: Madrid (

Plaza de Castilla The Plaza de Castilla ( en, "Castile Square") is a roundabout in the north of Madrid, Spain. Location It is located in the north of the city and is bisected by Paseo de la Castellana, one of the main thoroughfares of the capital, almost at its ...

) - Alcobendas (Interbús) * 152C: Madrid (Plaza de Castilla) - San Sebastián de los Reyes (Dehesa Vieja) (Interbús) * 153: Madrid (Plaza de Castilla) - Alcobendas - Rosa Luxemburgo (Interbús) * 154: Madrid (Chamartín) - San Sebastián de los Reyes (circular by Fuencarral) (Interbús) * 154C: Madrid (Plaza de Castilla) - San Sebastián de los Reyes (Quiñones Avenue) (Interbús) * 156: Madrid (Plaza de Castilla) - San Sebastián de los Reyes (Polígono Industrial Moscatelares) (Interbús) * 158: Madrid (Pinar de Chamartín) - Alcobendas-San Sebastián de los Reyes (Tempranales) (Interbús) * 161: Madrid (Plaza de Castilla) - Fuente del Fresno urbanization (Interbús) * 166: San Sebastián de los Reyes-Urbanización Valdelagua (Interbús) * 180: Alcobendas -

Algete Algete () is a town and municipality in central Spain. It lies in the comarca de Alcalá in the autonomous community of the Community of Madrid. It had a population of 19,345 in 2008. Algete is northeast of the capital. Sights include the chur ...

(Interbús) * 171: Madrid (Plaza de Castilla) - Santo Domingo urbanization ( ALSA) * 191: Madrid (Plaza de Castilla) -

Buitrago del Lozoya Buitrago del Lozoya () is a municipality of the autonomous community of Madrid in central Spain. It belongs to the comarca of Sierra Norte. The town is one of the few in the community that have maintained its walls, which are of Moorish orig ...

(ALSA) * 193: Madrid (Plaza de Castilla) -

El Vellón El Vellón is a municipality of the Community of Madrid, Spain. It is known for the Watchtower of El Vellón. Transport system El Vellón has three line buses, all of them operated by ALSA. Two of them connect the village with Madrid. Thes ...

(ALSA) * 194: Madrid (Plaza de Castilla) - Rascafría (ALSA) * 195: Madrid (Plaza de Castilla) - Braojos (ALSA) * 196: Madrid (Plaza de Castilla) - La Acebeda (ALSA) * 197: Madrid (Plaza de Castilla) - Uceda (ALSA) * 210: San Sebastián de los Reyes -

Paracuellos de Jarama Paracuellos del Jarama is a small town and municipality in the Community of Madrid, Spain. It is located northeast from Madrid and very close to Madrid-Barajas Airport. The etymology of the name is unclear.Javier Nájera Martínez, Luis Yuste Ric ...

(ALSA) * 827: Madrid ( Canillejas) -

Tres Cantos Tres Cantos is a municipality of Spain located in Community of Madrid. Originally belonging to Colmenar Viejo, it seceded from the latter municipality in 1991, becoming the youngest municipality in the region. The urbanised area was conceived as ...

(Doroteo Casado Montes) * 827A: Alcobendas - San Sebastián de los Reyes - University (Doroteo Casado Montes) * Night bus line 102: Madrid (Plaza de Castilla) - San Sebastián de los Reyes (Interbús) * Night bus line 103: Madrid (Plaza de Castilla) - Algete (Interbús) * Night bus line 104: Madrid (Plaza de Castilla) -

San Agustín del Guadalix San Agustín del Guadalix is a Spanish town located north of the Comunidad de Madrid, near to Sierra de Guadarrama. It is bordered by Pedrezuela to the north, the municipalities of El Molar and Algete to the east and Colmenar Viejo to the sout ...

(ALSA) San Sebastián de los Reyes also shares a railway station with the neighboring municipality of Alcobendas. From this station you can go to the city of Madrid and to many other places such as

Getafe Getafe () is a municipality and a city in Spain belonging to the Community of Madrid. , it has a population of 180,747, the region's sixth most populated municipality. Getafe is located 13 km south of Madrid's city centre, within a flat ar ...

Parla Parla () is a municipality in the Community of Madrid, Spain. It is located in the southern part of the region, approximately 20 km from the capital, Madrid. History Origins Earliest evidence of human occupation includes stone tools m ...

Economy

Major industrial companies have branches in San Sebastián de los Reyes, including

IKEA IKEA (; ) is a Dutch multinational conglomerate based in the Netherlands that designs and sells , kitchen appliances, decoration, home accessories, and various other goods and home services. Started in 1943 by Ingvar Kamprad, IKEA has been ...

, Leroy Merlin, PC City, Selther, Carrefour, Alternate, Media Markt, Telepizza, Antena 3, and many more. Game developer

MercurySteam Mercury Steam Entertainment S.L., doing business as MercurySteam, is a Spanish video game developer based in San Sebastián de los Reyes, Madrid. The company was founded by former members of Rebel Act Studios, who previously developed '' Seve ...

is based here.

Sport

The Jarama Circuit, located in the north of the municipality, hosted the

Spanish Grand Prix The Spanish Grand Prix ( es, Gran Premio de España, ca, Gran Premi d'Espanya) is a Formula One motor racing event currently held at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya. The race is one of the oldest in the world still contested, celebrating it ...

and

Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix The Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix is a motorcycling event that is part of the FIM Grand Prix motorcycle racing season that takes place at Circuito de Jerez-Ángel Nieto outside Jerez de la Frontera in Andalucia. In addition to this event, three ...

between the 1960s and 1980s. A women's soccer team,

Madrid CFF Madrid Club de Fútbol Femenino (; ''Madrid Women's Football Club'') is a Spanish women's football club based in San Sebastián de los Reyes, Community of Madrid, that currently plays in Liga F. History Madrid CFF was founded in 2010 by Alfre ...

, plays in the

Primera División (women) The Primera División de la Liga de Fútbol Femenino, currently known as Liga F (finetwork Liga F for sponsorship reasons), is the highest level of league competition for women's football in Spain. It is the women's equivalent of the men's La Li ...

but it has not gone well for them there. They are from Madrid, but their stadium is in San Sebastián. Ayuntamiento-Sanse

Town twinning

Baunatal Baunatal is a town in the district of Kassel, in Hesse, Germany. It is a comparatively young town which arose from fusion of the formerly independent municipalities ''Altenbauna'', ''Altenritte'', ''Großenritte'', ''Guntershausen'', ''Hertingsh ...

, Germany (since 1990)

References

External links

Ayuntamiento de San Sebastián de los Reyes
{{DEFAULTSORT:San Sebastian De Los Reyes Municipalities in the Community of Madrid