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

Community of Madrid The Community of Madrid (; ) is one of the seventeen autonomous communities and 50 provinces of Spain, provinces of Spain. It is located at the heart of the Iberian Peninsula and Meseta Central, Central Plateau (); its capital and largest munici ...

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

Madrid Madrid ( ; ) is the capital and List of largest cities in Spain, most populous municipality of Spain. It has almost 3.5 million inhabitants and a Madrid metropolitan area, metropolitan area population of approximately 7 million. It i ...

Geography

It forms an urban continuum with the neighboring

Alcobendas Alcobendas () is a municipality of Spain located in the Community of Madrid. It forms an urban continuum with the neighbouring municipality of San Sebastián de los Reyes. The affluent residential area of La Moraleja lies within the municipal l ...

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:

- La Moraleja (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 (, ) is a square 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 end. It lies between th ...

) - 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 20,767 in 2022. Algete is northeast of the capital. Sights include the church ...

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

Buitrago del Lozoya Buitrago del Lozoya () is a Municipalities of Spain, municipality of the autonomous community of Community of Madrid, Madrid in central Spain. It belongs to the comarca of Sierra Norte. The town is one of the few in the community that have main ...

(ALSA) * 193: Madrid (Plaza de Castilla) - El Vellón (ALSA) * 194: Madrid (Plaza de Castilla) -

Rascafría Rascafría is a municipality of the Community of Madrid The Community of Madrid (; ) is one of the seventeen autonomous communities and 50 provinces of Spain, provinces of Spain. It is located at the heart of the Iberian Peninsula and Meseta ...

(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 (ALSA) * 827: Madrid (

Canillejas Canillejas is an administrative neighborhood (''barrio'') of Madrid, belonging to the San Blas-Canillejas district. It is named after the former namesake municipality, absorbed by Madrid in 1949. It has an area of . As of 1 March 2020, it has a ...

) -

Tres Cantos Tres Cantos () is a Municipalities of Spain, 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 urban ...

(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 (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 municipalities in Spain, 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 c ...

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 Multinational corporation, multinational conglomerate (company), conglomerate founded in Sweden that designs and sells , household goods, and various related services. IKEA is owned and operated by a series of not-for-profit an ...

, 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. It was founded by former members of Rebel Act Studios, who had developed '' Severance: Blade of D ...

is based here.

Sport

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

Spanish Grand Prix The Spanish Grand Prix (, ) 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 its centenary in 2013. The race had modest beginnings ...

and Spanish motorcycle Grand Prix between the 1960s and 1980s. A women's soccer team, Madrid CFF, plays in the

Primera División (women) The Primera División de la Liga de Fútbol Femenino, currently known as the 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 ...

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'', ''Hertin ...

, Germany (since 1990)

References

Notable people

Jorge Martin Jorge is the Spanish and Portuguese form of the given name George. While spelled alike, this name is pronounced very differently in each of the two languages: Spanish ; Portuguese . It is derived from the Greek name Γεώργιος (''Georgios ...

, 2024 MotoGP World Champion in the

Grand Prix motorcycle racing Grand Prix motorcycle racing is the highest class of motorcycle road racing events held on Road racing, road circuits sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de Motocyclisme (FIM). Independent motorcycle racing events have been held sin ...

championship.

External links

Ayuntamiento de San Sebastián de los Reyes
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