Collado Villalba
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Collado Villalba is a municipality in the Community of Madrid, Spain
. It is located 39 kilometres north-west of Madrid
the capital city of Spain, at an altitude of 917m above sea level. It has a population density of about 2,184.49 hab./km². The climate of Collado Villalba is Mediterranean-continental.
On December 12th, 2009 it will be the host town of Sebastian's Julefrokost. This is the third such event, having been previously hosted in Crumlin and Ballymun, both areas of Dublin, Ireland, in 2006 & 2008.
I.E.S Lázaro Cárdenas of Collado Villalba conducts an annual School to School Exchange with Woburn Memorial High School in Woburn, MA USA. It has been managed by Professor Ramón José García Rubio for over 20 years.In addition to this school to school exchange, the municipality has been twinned since 1991 with the French city of Bègles
, located in the Bordeaux
metropolitan area in Southwestern France.
I.E.S María Guerrero of the same town have started to make an exchange with the high school Minervaskolan of Umeå
located 600 kilometres on the north of Stockholm, in Sweden
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
. It is located 39 kilometres north-west of Madrid
Madrid
Madrid is the capital and largest city of Spain. The population of the city is roughly 3.3 million and the entire population of the Madrid metropolitan area is calculated to be 6.271 million. It is the third largest city in the European Union, after London and Berlin, and its metropolitan...
the capital city of Spain, at an altitude of 917m above sea level. It has a population density of about 2,184.49 hab./km². The climate of Collado Villalba is Mediterranean-continental.
On December 12th, 2009 it will be the host town of Sebastian's Julefrokost. This is the third such event, having been previously hosted in Crumlin and Ballymun, both areas of Dublin, Ireland, in 2006 & 2008.
I.E.S Lázaro Cárdenas of Collado Villalba conducts an annual School to School Exchange with Woburn Memorial High School in Woburn, MA USA. It has been managed by Professor Ramón José García Rubio for over 20 years.In addition to this school to school exchange, the municipality has been twinned since 1991 with the French city of Bègles
Bègles
Bègles is a commune in the Gironde department in southwestern France.It is a suburb of the city of Bordeaux and is adjacent to it on the south.-Population:-Personalities:Bègles was the birthplace of:* Sandrine Cantoreggi , violinist...
, located in the Bordeaux
Bordeaux
Bordeaux is a port city on the Garonne River in the Gironde department in southwestern France.The Bordeaux-Arcachon-Libourne metropolitan area, has a population of 1,010,000 and constitutes the sixth-largest urban area in France. It is the capital of the Aquitaine region, as well as the prefecture...
metropolitan area in Southwestern France.
I.E.S María Guerrero of the same town have started to make an exchange with the high school Minervaskolan of Umeå
Umeå
- Transport :The road infrastructure in Umeå is well-developed, with two European highways passing through the city. About 4 km from the city centre is the Umeå City Airport...
located 600 kilometres on the north of Stockholm, in Sweden