MAYOR GREETING FROM THE

Welcome to Zaragoza .

F o r t h e n e x t t h r e e m o n t h s , o u r c i t y i s h o l d i n g t h e g r e a t e s t c e l e b r a t i o n o n w a t e r o n t h e E a r t h , t h e m o s t i m p o r t a n t c u l t u r a l e v e n t h e l d i n t h e S o u t h o f E u r o p e : t h e I n t e r n a t i o n a l E x h i b i t i o n “ W a t e r a n d S u s t a i n a b l e D e v e l o p m e n t ” .

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B u t f o r Z a r a g o z a , t h e I n t e r n a t i o n a l E x h i b i t i o n 2 0 0 8 i s m u c h m o r e t h a n w h a t i s s h o w e d i n i t s 2 5 h e c t a r e s , e v e n t h o u g h i t s t h e m e , w a t e r , i s o n e o f t h e k e y s f o r t h e p r o g r e s s o f h u m a n i t y i n t h e 2 1 s t c e n t u r y . T h i s i s t h e r i g h t t i m e f o r i n t r o d u c i n g u s b e f o r e t h e w o r l d a s t h e m e d i u m - s i z e E u r o p e a n c i t y t h a t w a n t s t o b e c o m e t h e w o r l d r e f e r e n t i n w a t e r a n d s u s t a i n a b i l i t y , h e a d q u a r t e r s o f t h e O f f i c e o f t h e U n i t e d N a t i o n s f o r t h e D e c a d e o f t h e W a t e r , a n d t h e W a t e r T r i b u n e . E x p o 2 0 0 8 h a s a l l o w e d u s t o c a r r y o u t a t r a n s f o r m a t i o n c o m b i n i n g a r e c o v e r y o f t h e b a n k s o f o u r f o u r w a t e r w a y s , t h e r i v e r s E b r o , H u e r v a , G a l l e g o a n d t h e C a n a l I m p e r i a l d e A r a g ó n , t r a n s p o r t i n f r a s t r u c t u r e s t h a t h a v e t u r n e d u s i n t o t h e l o g i s t i c s r e f e r e n t i n t h e N o r t h e a s t o f S p a i n , a n d a l s o t o l a u n c h p r o j e c t s s u c h a s t h e t e c h n o l o g i c a l d i s t r i c t M i l l a D i g i t a l , f o r g u a r a n t e e i n g u s a n e x c e l l e n t p o s i t i o n i n t h e f i e l d o f i n f o r m a t i o n t e c h n o l o g i e s a n d t h e n e w e c o n o m y .

I i n v i t e a l l o f y o u t o k n o w o u r m o n u m e n t s , w a l k b y o u r s t r e e t s , a n d e n j o y o u r g a s t r o n o m y , o u r c u l t u r e a n d o u r h o s p i t a l i t y . A n d I w i s h y o u t o b e a s h a p p y i n Z a r a g o z a a s w e a r e f o r h a v i n g y o u w i t h u s .

J U A N A L B E R T O B E L L O C H J U L B E Mayor of Zaragoza

GENERAL

PRESENTATION ZARAGOZA, TODAY AND TOMORROW

Zaragoza has left back the period of illusions entering in that of realities. Projects have jumped from paper to the streets, and the city is enjoying today the Ebro as never had done before, with magnificent river banks that have turned into the High street of the city and a centre of permanent attraction for visitors. A park such as the metropolitan park “Luis Buñuel”, unique in its dimensions (more than 120 hectares), with leisure facilities (white waters, pitch&putt, beach and natural swimming pools, thermal centre, etc) and natural diversity. From the 19 brand new bridges and footbridges, some of them as emblematic as the Pabellón Puente, the Puente del Tercer Milenio or the Pasarela del Voluntariado. The closing of the ring road, the new access of the A-68, the North access, and tens of other great projects. Without forgetting the own venue where the Expo will be hold, a spectacular area on the banks of the Ebro, with a wealth and architectural variety difficult to match.

The Expo has been, is and will be the greater event of Zaragoza in years. A historical landmark. The inflection point of a city that wants to be the third of Spain at the end of the next decade, boosted by the impact of holding the International Exhibition. The organization of the Expo has supposed a public investment in the city of more than 2,500 million euros, and adding public investment it would be over 9,000 million euros. But the importance of this project goes beyond the economic aspect, to extend to the global development of the city.

The transformation project of the city does not run out with the International Exhibition and its very important support work package already mentioned, but it extends beyond the year 2015. Projects such as the Intermodal Plan of Transports or the technological district Milla Digital - to mention only two essentials projects­guarantee the continuity of the present boosting of investment and will complete the massive arrival of funds for infrastructures and facilities given to Zaragoza. A boost endowed with an exceptionality and importance due not only to the public initiative but also to the very outstanding commitment of the private sector.

The effect caused by the organization of Expo 2008 in the transformation of the city is evident, acting as a booster for those projects that had remained only in paper. The new position in the logistics sector and the new economic activities developed around it can also be added.

But this transformation is not the result of an uncontrolled boost, but the result, in a good part, of a studied strategy arising born from the analysis made by hundreds of experts for more than a decade. A strategic plan shaped in fields such as logistics or environmental sustainability - in which Zaragoza is an international referent-, transforming its urban design and international projection, and becoming a centre of economic, trade and business attraction.

Zaragoza is today one of the most dynamic cities of the South of Europe and the true engine of the Autonomous Community of Aragon, the Spanish region with the biggest growth in 2007. An organised and rational growth based on five main lines

of action: promote a balanced development between the city and its surroundings; secure an efficient management of resources and respect for biodiversity; revitalize a sustainable and receptive business fabric for the emergent sectors; assure the covering of social needs, attend to new demographic trends; and empower Knowledge Society.

The balanced growth between Zaragoza and its municipalities supports itself in keeping a compact, heterogeneous and multifunctional city, with a good accessibility and a polycentric and joined development of nearby villages.

But the most extraordinary transformation has been internal, affecting to a 110% of the built-up surface in the city in 2001. This gives us an idea of the magnitude of the process for renovating and building infrastructures, facilities and services that Zaragoza has passed from 2005. A true reinvented city.

Zaragoza is today an open, hospitable city, more modern and accessible, ambitious and attractive. For that reason, it is no wonder that Zaragoza is the city with a biggest growth in the last years among those with more than 500,000 inhabitants and, simultaneously, that growth has not had a negative impact for the quality of life of its citizen (being one of the cities with a better ratio).

Zaragoza is living a historical but not culminating age, because the Expo is not an arrival point but the start point. A process that have made possible a perfect union between city and citizens towards the Zaragoza of the 21st century.

Thoroughness in not one of the pretensions of this press dossier. This is a a guide, and as such, it aims at being a reference frame for a bigger reality: the city of Zaragoza. So, this is a kind of x-ray of the city in which its main outlines but not all the organs can be seen Its objective is to serve as a work tool for the journalists of the mass media who are not living in Zaragoza and that want to know in a fast and concise way, but also thorough and fit, the main characteristics of the city that is holding the 2008 International Exhibition. A manageable and accessible itinerary structured by themed areas in which direct information is the most important aspect.

The information contained in this document represents only a small and representative percentage of the total volume that is at the disposal of any mass media in the following resources:

Council of Zaragoza Department of Communication

Pza. del Pilar, 18 Tef: (+34)976721163 Fax: (+34)976721192

Website of the Council of Zaragoza - www.zaragoza.es

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IMPORTANCE OF THE EXPO FOR THE CITY

“Everything happening in Zaragoza in the last years has been possible thanks to the Expo, has been sped up thanks to the Expo or has been transformed thanks to the Expo. I estimate that 25 years had been necessary to get all the improvements that we have experienced in the last three years. Without any doubt, the Expo has been the catalyst of the process for the global transformation of the city, but, simultaneously I believe that this process is deeper and goes beyond the own International Exhibition. In fact, the boosting of the Expo goes beyond the temporary goals for the year 2008. Thus, the project for the city that has started thanks to the Expo, will end in 2020, date in which we hope to be the third city of Spain”

A SUCCESS OF ALL OF US

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THINKING ABOUT THE POST-EXPO

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ours comes from the city, from ourselves, by our own initiative, from down to up. An historical and collective success that is

The impact of the Expo not only is excellent for Zaragoza and Aragon, but also, and mainly, for Spain, because this Exhibition is going to be the only one to take place in Europe in a period of 15 years, which means that all the attention of the continent will concentrate on it, covering all that niche of international events. From Hannover 2000 to Milan 2015, only the Expo of Zaragoza will take place in European territory. For that reason, the success of this Expo will be the success of

thout a project for the post-Expo. From the beginning, from the same origin of the candidacy, the elaboration of an exhaustive project for the reusability of the spaces, of its auxiliary spaces, of all those elements that will form the Expo during its three months, has been a top prior ty for the International Exhibition. A meticulous relinquishment plan that foreseeably will culminate in 2010 wworks to turn the Expo site into a modern and privileged business park. Everything in the Expo has been done thinking

The Expo is going to have a crucial impact on media to locate Zaragoza as the world capital of water and sustainable development. An historical landmark that will serve as a compass to the world in order to undertake more efficient, rational and sustainable water policies, through the so-call Charter of Zaragoza: a definitive and binding declaration in its spirit that will open a definitive door to decision making. I do not have doubts that Zaragoza will be to water what Kyoto is to climate

More than 2,000 world experts in the management of water are taking part this summer in the Water Tribune, that will be the backbone of the Expo. An authentic factory of ideas, contents and solutions for the management of water; a diffusion centre for the values related to the responsible use of water resources; a world forum for dialogue and agreement; and a showcase for good social, environmental and technological practices, and all this from a practical point of view. We are not looking for a diagnosis of the problem because all of us know the symptoms. We will be looking for solutions, and the Water

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THE PLACE OF ZARAGOZA IN THE SOUTH OF EUROPE

“Our goal in the short and mid-term is to place Zaragoza as the most dynamic and emerging medium-size city of the South of Europe. Without any doubt, this is the most difficult challenge to get, but this city has already showed that is able to get all that it wants”

DIVERSIFICATION OF THE PRODUCTION AND SPECILISATION IN KEY SECTORS

“Zaragoza has shaken its complexes off and has undertaken pioneering and innovative projects at a national and international level. A determined and meditated specialisation that goes beyond water and sustainable development and is related to key economic and social sectors such as innovation, new technologies, logistics, researching and recycling. The city, at the same time, has consolidated itself as City of Congresses, has boosted its tourist profile and international presence, has multiplied its appeal for the tertiary sector and has reinforced its industrial leadership in the interregional axis of the Ebro Valley. A strong and ambitious bet to become the third Spanish city”

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ARCHITECTURAL REVOLUTION

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GLOBAL URBAN TRANSFORMATION

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RECOVERY OF THE RIVER EBRO

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BETTING FOR A MORE HABITABLE CITY

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mes for the economy, the growth boosting of Zaragoza is guaranteed thanks to the Expo; plans such as the construction until 2013, of more than 20,000 subsidised houses, the development of the Milla Digital project (a technological district of 1 million m2 in the heart of the city), the launching of the Intermodal Transport Plan (that will need an investment of over one billion euros) or the extension of the intermodal platform Pla-Za (the biggest logistics centre of the south of Europe), to mention only a few concrete examples, the public and private investments in the city and, therefore, the

Zaragoza has undergone an exceptional change from the architectural point of view, giving to the city a modernity and leading cities. The Expo site concentrates five

architectural landmarks such as the Pavilion Bridge, the Bridge of the Third Millennium, the Palace of Conferences, the th others such as the Volunteers

Footbridge, Delicias Intermodal Station or the Digital Water Pavilion, matching perfectly w th emblematic historical buildings such as the Basilica del Pilar and la Aljafería Palace. Zaragoza is already an unavoidable city for any lover of the avant-garde art and architecture. And even thanks to projects such as the technological district Milla

The urban transformation in Zaragoza has been so important that we can ask ourselves what has not changed. There is a ng data that summarises faithfully the importance of this process: the urban space acted upon has represented more

th many annoyances for the citizens th more than 300 works opened in the city), but I believe that the trouble has been worthwhile,

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th the Olympic Games, Expo 2008 has given to Zaragoza the opportunity to settle an historical debt: the river Ebro, from being the backyard of the city, has become its high street. 8 kilometres of river banks that have stopped being a scar in the city and have turned into its central point, its heart

th the best ratio of green areas per citizen. That means that, not only we enjoy the urban advantages that a great city offers, but also we are lucky to have big areas for relaxing, meeting

th nature and enjoying all kind of outdoor activities. This shows that Zaragoza is ambitious and goes towards modernity, but also that we must not forget that the city is for the citizens and that we must works to have a more and more friendly and

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A CITY PUTTING ALL ITS ENERGY IN THE HOUSING POLICY

“ One of our big concerns and priorities is to facilitate access to decent housing. For that reason, we launched three years ago an ambitious plan to build more than 29,000 dwellings in the city, more than a half subsidised. A strong and determined initiative that will extend to the next decade and that answers to an exemplary project of sustainability and respect for the environment. A planned and rational growth to turn these new districts (Valdespartera and Arcosur) into true ecocities”

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After many years of empty and hollow speeches, Zaragoza finally can say that is really taking advantage of its exceptional geographic situation as a centre of the quadrant formed by Madrid, Levante, Catalonia and the Basque Country. The High speed line means that Zaragoza has become part of the metropolitan area of Madrid and Barcelona (less than 90 minutes

th dual carriageways or motorways linking us w th the four areas above mentioned. This means that Zaragoza is the centre of a potential market of 20 million people, the area w th the biggest spending power in the nation. Therefore, it is not strange that the process of economic and business relocalisat on from these places towards our city is already a fact, and that Zaragoza is finally taking advantage of the centripetal force that historically was being announced but that did not

A CONSTANT AND MAINTAINED GROWTH

th the Expo because this is not an arrival point but a departure one. This is also an inflection point for our attitudes and opinions, for getting rid of our victimism, complexes and of our internal mechanism of comparative offence. We, the people of Zaragoza, look at the future w th the self-esteem of getting an achievement such as the Expo, and the hope of new projects for the future. More than ever, Zaragoza is today a modern, European, open and ambitious

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GENERAL NOTES ON THE CITY OF ZARAGOZA

Situation and location

City and capital of the province with the same name, located in 41° 39´ 24” North latitude and 2° 48´ 28 " East longitude. Zaragoza is 200 metres over sea level and its municipal term, with 1,059 km2, is one of the biggest in Spain (near the double of Madrid).

The city has a privileged geographic situation, in the centre of the Northeast quadrant of the Iberian Peninsula, 322 kilometres away from Madrid (capital of Spain), 312 from Barcelona, 321 from Valencia and 305 from Bilbao. Zaragoza is also, with its metropolitan area, the epicentre of the different counties of the Autonomous Community of Aragon.

Zaragoza has always benefited from its situation as a crossroads of the natural routes of the Ebro Valley, that communicated merchandises and people from the Mediterranean coast (East) to the Cantabrian (North).

The city is flat and its urban plan is adapted to its condition as a meeting point of the rivers Gállego and Huerva, with the Ebro, the biggest of Spain and an essential element of the city of Zaragoza.

Meteorology and climate

The climate is Mediterranean-Continental with arid tendencies. Its most outstanding weather characteristic is the Northeast wind popularly known as “cierzo” (gusty wind that follows the river Ebro – address SE- and that blow almost during half of the year with an average speed of 40 km/hour, value that usually and easily doubles). Its presence produces that, in days with low temperatures, thermal feeling is especially cold, but simultaneously carries out an important function of environmental depolluter, cleaning the city air.

The average number of sunny and clear sky days is almost 300 per year, whereas rain by year reaches an average of 315 litres, concentrated in 65 days. The annual average temperature is 15° (and the annual average amplitude is 18.6), but the thermic feeling the days the north wind blows does not agree with the real temperature.

Environment

The Ebro river is the axis that articulates a territory characterized by strong contrasts between semi-desertical areas and the green fertile valleys of the river courses. The Ebro has formed some of the most interesting natural spaces in the area, the “Galachos”, old arms of the river that have originated lagoons of enormous interest for its fauna and flora. To the North of the capital is the Galacho de Juslibol and to the South, with access from the villages of Pastriz and La Puebla de Alfindén, is that of La Alfranca, and not very far, those of La Cartuja and El Burgo de Ebro.

Communications

By air

In February 2008 was opened the new terminal of the airport of Zaragoza, with a capacity for more than two million users by year. The facilities of this modern equipment -with architectural features taken from the T-4 of Madrid- have been reformed (car parks, area for parking planes, etc.).

Airline companies such as Iberia, Spanair, Ryanair or Pla-Za keep regular lines from Zaragoza and operate with many national destinations (Madrid, Barcelona, Santiago, Malaga or Alicante, among others) and international (London, Milan, Rome, Brussels, Frankfurt, Paris, etc). Charters from Zaragoza, increasingly numerous, have become an alternative for wholesale tourist companies and represent an important volume of the traffic in the airport.

The airport of Zaragoza is also one of the most important of Spain for its load volume, being the fourth in transported tons. An activity on the rise by the condition of Zaragoza as a logistic enclave and its proximity to the great commercial and industrial poles of the country.

Railway

Zaragoza is communicated with Madrid by high speed from 2003, reducing to 90 minutes the time to travel there. In December 2007, the stretch between Lérida and Barcelona was finished, so Zaragoza completed its communication axis with the two main Spanish cities and is already less than 1h. 30 min. Away from both cities. The high speed line between Zaragoza and Pamplona to the Basque Country is expected to be finished in 2012.

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By road

Zaragoza is communicated by motorway with Barcelona and Bilbao (Logroño-Pamplona-San Sebastián) and by dual carriageway with Huesca, Madrid and Valencia. That is to say, it is connected by fast routes with the four main demographic, trade and industrial centres of the country.

Brief history of the city and urban evolution

The city was founded on the year 24 BC by the Roman Empire with the name of Caesaraugusta, although already before that, the Iberians had established a village in this territory with the name of Salduie. It was a crossroad from its foundation. Its urban layout follows the Roman orthogonal model according to two normal axes: the bigger axis - decumanus-, parallel to the Ebro and corresponding to the streets Mayor and Espoz y Mina; and the perpendicular axis to the river -the cardo that would be the street of D. Jaime. The city was closed by a nearly rectangular wall, corresponding its South face to the Coso, place in which the four gates of the city were situated.

During Muslim domination, Caesaraugusta was called called Medina Albaida Saraqusta, without undergoing great alterations. In 1118 the Christian reconquest of the city was completed and soon inner districts began to be built such as those of the “morería” and the “judería”, and a district to the other side of the bridge and therefore outside the walls (extrawalls), el Arrabal.

The first urban expansion area dates back from the 13th century, from the Northeast gate where the market was; thus the district of San Pablo was built and then those of San Agustín and San Miguel. Due to the demographic pressure derived from the importance of Zaragoza, it was necessary to build a wall more to the South than the Roman, in which will be the present paseo de María Agustín. The Medieval wall on the East arrived to the Huerva and on the West to the gate of Sancho, including the whole district of San Pablo. In this way, the plaza del Mercado became the city centre. The population increased from 19,920 inhabitants in 1495 to 27,940 in 1650, and 38,630 in 1776.

The Sieges of 1808 and 1809 destroyed a big part of the city, forcing to undertake the reconstruction of the central part of the contemporary Zaragoza, although respecting an important portion of the previous road scheme. Thus, from el Coso to the South, “El Paseo” is built in 1815 ( today paseo de la Independance, to commemorate this historical event and being the main artery of the city centre) with arcades similar to those of the rue de Rivoli in Paris. The confiscation of religious possessions also benefits the expansion of the city from the vegetable gardens of the peripheral convents. This is a necessary expansion due to the demographic increase: 63,399 inhabitants in 1857 and 99,118 in 1900. The old city, to make easier traffic and the city-planning arrangement, experiments in the second half of the 19th century and the first decades of the 20th surgical operations that open or widen the perpendicular streets to the Ebro, especially Alfonso I and Don Jaime. Traffic is also easier after the demolition of the walls which allows to draw up ring roads.

Thanks to industrial development, factories and working districts around the stations are opened in the second half of the 19th century. Thus, comes up the district of la Estación (1861) at el Arrabal, the area of Madre Sacramento at the MZA station (el Portillo) and between both, when being joined by the bridge, the Industria Química (1898) and its district. During the first decades of the 20th century, the industrial and city-planning growth is materialized in the roads exits: Barcelona road (district of Jesús), Madrid road (district of las Delicias), and Castellón road (Miguel Servet).

In the meantime, the residential area of the middle-class is extended towards the South, thanks to the urbanization of the vegetable gardens of Santa Engracia and the covering of the river Huerva. The centre, step by step, moves from the old Roman town to the paseo de la Independencia. From 1940 to 1980, Zaragoza undergoes its most spectacular population increase and city-planning of history, passing from 238,000 inhabitants to near 600,000. The centre and the residential area of the middle-class continue to move to the South along the Gran Vía.

The district of la Romareda, vía de la Hispanidad, and Miraflores, continue to be inhabited by the bourgeoisie and the middle-class. Delicias district, that began being a humble district for workers, underwent a socioeconomic reconversion increasing its status. The districts of Las Fuentes, San José, Torrero and la Química grew extraordinarily. With the creation in 1964 of the industrial areas of Cogullada and Malpica, on the left bank of the Ebro, and the Plan Actur (urgent action) starts up an urbanization process in the other side of the river to house 200,000 people.

At present, the process of residential widening of the city, from its Historical Centre towards the periphery, is taking place mainly in its North and South poles, thanks to new districts such as those of Arcosur and Valdespartera (South) and Parque Goya (North). These are new areas, mainly of young people, with approximately 40,000 new dwellings, most of tem subsidised (financed with the aid from the public administration).

The creation of new of leisure and shopping centres and business parks, logistic platforms and industrial areas in the suburbs of the city, have motivated the extension of the city to the outskirts.

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The population of the city of Saragossa at the beginning of century did not reached 100,000 inhabitants, but 40 years later it had been duplicated and in 1980 practically was six times higher. In 1991, the population was 594,394 inhabitants and in 1998, 603.367. At the moment, the barrier of the 680,000 has been surpassed, that is to say, a 15% more than in the last decade.

The fundamental cause of the demographic increase has been immigration. Zaragoza has been from the beginning of this century an attraction pole for the people of the Ebro Valley and more concretely of Aragon, that has been become increasingly empty. A process that, since the end of the past century, has been replaced by the arrival of foreign citizens coming from the European Union, and mainly from other continents such as Asia, Africa or Latin America.

The consequences of immigration for Zaragoza are very different: demographic, sociological, economic, city-planning, etc. Demographically, the immigration has caused the biological structure of the population to be younger than that of the province and the rest of Aragon, since immigrants are essentially young; but in addition it has provoked a bigger birth rate since this young population has more children than the old one which is remaining in small villages.

Economics, industrials and logístics activities

Zaragoza is the economic - industrial and services- centre of Aragon and the Ebro Valley. Its strategic location in the Iberian Peninsula turns Zaragoza into the main core of the most dynamic axis of economic development and communications of Europe. Its location, in addition, represents for the companies placed here a competitive advantage in the national market, since it makes possible a reduction of cost and transit time for raw materials and finished products.

That makes also that Zaragoza can have a wide supply of services, empowered by an important fair, and by conferences and exhibitions, thanks to the Trade Fair and the Auditorium –Conferences Hall. During the year 2007, 540 events took place in Zaragoza (conferences, days, conventions and meetings), with an attendance of 130,000 delegates, 46 events (fairs, expositions…) and 1,600 work meetings with less than 50 people.

EXPO

The project of the International Exhibition was launched in 1999, when the current Mayor, Juan Alberto Belloch, run as candidate to the elections, having this project as one of the central axes of his program. At that time, it was only an idea, but step by step it was boosted, receiving supports and taking force in a city without great projects for the future and living in lethargy. The project for an Expo gave also the opportunity to boost a historical plan of urban transformation for the city, after many decades of demands.

The message caught on in society, and although Mr. Belloch would not become Mayor until 2003, the initiative took its first administrative and institutional steps thanks to an unanimous political and social consensus. Being already Mayor, Mr. Belloch boosted the creation of the public society that would manage the candidacy, set the first State commitments, and the following year, after the victory of Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero in the Spanish General Elections, the candidacy received the definitive and decisive boost from the central Government, that concluded with the election of Zaragoza as host city of the International Exhibition by the BIE (Bureau International des Expositions) in December 2004.

There was only 3 years and 5 months to turn Ranillas meander (with more 150 hectares) into an area until then devoted to grow fruits and vegetables, into a spectacular exposition venue. A fight against the clock that has culminated in a spectacular way raising admiration even between its own promoters, conscious, being the most conscious of the dimensions and pressures derived from the project. Doubts on the process have turned into a reality, and today, Zaragoza looks satisfied at how “the impossible” project is a magnificent reality.

The Expo and its Supporting Plan (works to be done in the city, linked to the Exhibition) have supposed a public investment in the city of approximately 2,500 million euros, contributed by the Government of Spain (70%), the Government of Aragon (15%) and the City Council of Zaragoza (15%).

Adding private investment to this figure, the total amount for the Expo could rise to 9,000 million euros.

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Zaragoza borders on 700,000 inhabitants

The demographic increase of the city with respect to 2006 was of 2.29%, whereas the foreign population registered an increase of 22.57%, and represents the 12.55%. The most populated district continues to be Delicias with 115,466 inhabitants and the average age of the residents in the city is 41.16 years

Zaragoza population has increased 2.29% in Zaragoza with respect to 2006, and set in 682,283 the people registered in the city. An increase that consolidates the upward demographic line of the last decade. From 2001, the population of Zaragoza has increased over an 11%.

Therefore, the number of citizens of foreign origin who are living in Zaragoza is the 12.55% of the population. From the year 2000, the number has multiplied by 13, and this upward tendency seems to continue.

By nationalities, Romania and Ecuador have the most numerous colonies in our city, with 27,620 and 10,997 people respectively The example of this European country is especially striking, since it represents almost a 30% of the immigrants.

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The high number of immigrants arriving at Zaragoza explain this yearly and continued increase. A process that registered in 2007 an increase of 22.57% with respect to 2006, being 92,491 the number of foreigners living in the city. At 1 January 2007 they were 75.458.

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Half of the immigrant population of Zaragoza concentrates in the districts of Delicias (25.1%), San José (12.2%) and the Historical Centre (11.7%), although this has the highest percentage, a 22.65% of the total of residents.

Concerning rural districts, foreign population represents less than a 5% of the total, half of them living in Casetas. In fact, the immigrants represent the 23% of the census of this district located at the West of the city.

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Thus, the information collected in the number 10, indicates that the average age of the citizens of Zaragoza is 41.16 years, nearly the same as it was at 1 January 2007 (41.24). People older than 65 represent a 17.28% of the population, whereas citizens younger than 25 are a 24.07%.

Miralbueno is the youngest district, with an average of 34.64 years, and the most aged is the Centre, with an average of 45.23 years.

By districts, Delicias, with a 16.92% (115,446 inhabitants) is the most populated district of the city, whereas the least is Torrecilla de Valmadrid with 28 inhabitants, representing a 0.004% of Zaragoza population.

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Zaragoza in transformation

The investments in public works in the neighbourhoods and districts during the last four years, since the city was nominated as organiser of Expo 2008, is around 2,500 million euros. More than twenty years would have been necessary to renovate and build the infrastructures and equipments with normal budgetary conditions

Zaragoza has undergone in the last four years, with the construction of the infrastructures and equipments for Expo 2008, a planning transformation that, in normal conditions, had needed over twenty years. More than 200 public works, with an investment going up to around 2,500 million euros, have been carried out in all the neighbourhoods and districts of the city. Thanks to this, the relevance of Zaragoza within the great Spanish cities has been empowered, and the quality of life of its citizens has been considerably improved.

Most of this package of actions is included in the Plan of Support of Expo 2008, signed by the Government of Spain (through the ministries of Promotion, and Environment), that has contributed with a 70% of the economic funds, the Government of Aragon, and the City Council of Zaragoza, each one with a 15%. The works of the Plan of Support have consisted, essentially, in the recovery for recreational and citizen uses of the river banks of the city (rivers Ebro, Gállego and Huerva, and the Imperial Canal of Aragon), with a length of 40 kilometres, the incorporation to the green ring of the city of big areas such as the new Metropolitan Water Park “Luis Buñuel” of 125 hectares, or the construction of 22 new bridges for the urban integration and improvement of the communications between districts.

We can add the investments from the private secto-r for the Expo 2008, many of them of great scope and repercussion for improving the competitiveness of Zaragoza in fields such as logistics (Pla-Za), industry (Technological Park of Recycling, Polígono Empresarium), shopping and leisure (Aragonia, Puerto Venecia), and business (World Trade Center). All these projects have supposed a private investment of 6,500 million euros, therefore all the actions carried out in Zaragoza in the last four years have reached 9,000 million euros.

Neighbourhoods and districts

This economic injection has allowed the City Council of Zaragoza to devote resources that, in normal conditions, had had to be devoted to other actions that have been waiting for years. In the majority of cases, these actions are not very expensive, but they represent a very important improvement for the quality of life of the residents in those districts.

Zaragoza has one of the biggest municipal terms of Spain, with an extension that goes up to around 1,000 square kilometres (one and a half the island of Menorca). This circumstance is one of the structural advantages of Zaragoza with respect to the rest of the great Spanish cities, since they practically have exhausted the surface available in their territories, at the time of growing and confronting new developments. This also determines the infrastructures of the city, since, apart from the 13 districts in which the urban area is divided, it has 14 rural districts, each of them with its own characteristics, personality and peculiarities, and that must be provided with the same services as Zaragoza.

Between the most outstanding activities carried out in the city: the extension and reform of the Airport of Zaragoza (36 million euros), the improvement of the surroundings of the Intermodal Station Delicias and the urbanisation of its ring road (80 million euros), the tunnels between el Portillo and the AVE district (29.7 million euros), the big square at the Intermodal Station Delicias (16 million euros), the Central Bus Station (15 million euros), the covering of the railroad tracks between Iriarte Reinoso street and the terminal of the Intermodal Station (20 million euros), the bridge of the Third Millennium by J.J. Arenas (33.7 million euros), the Pavilion Bridge by Zaha Hadid (62.4 million euros), the closing of the Third Ring Road (6 million Euros), the rehabilitation of the modernist villa of Solans as headquarters of the Agency of the United Nations for the Decade of Water, the rehabilitation of the old Sugar Refinery as library and space for young artists named Cubit, the closing of the Fourth Ring Road with the East Ring Road, including the new bridge over the Ebro (68 million euros), the new North access to the city from the dual carriageway of Huesca (34 million euros), the new pedestrian square and underground parking of La Romareda (57.5 million euros), the rehabilitation of the old Seminary as a municipal administration centre (50 million euros), the new headquarters of the Local Police (30 million euros), an underpass for the roundabout of the dual carriageway of Huesca (10 million euros), the North Ring Road at the ACTUR (12 million euros), the construction of 5 new municipal schools for children, the new School of Arts (18.4 million euros), the construction of the third track and new connections of the North Ring Road (98 million e), the covering of the railroad tracks between Tenor Fleta Avenue and the Fourth Ring Road (20 million euros), the green corridor Oliver-Valdefierro (10 million euros), the new residence of protected apartments and day centres in Oliver district (11 million euros), the new municipal sports centre and football pitch of La Camisera (4 million euros), or the remodelling and covering of the water tanks in Casablanca (18 million euros).

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A pattern of integral management The city has made a great effort to improve its infrastructures to collect, make water drinkable, distribute and purify used water, and at the same time has reduced consumption in 20 Hm3 in the last ten years. One of the goals of Expo 2008 is to turn Zaragoza into the world referent in the field of water administration

Zaragoza hopes to become the world reference in the administration of water and in the resolution of conflicts derived from the exploitation of water resources. This goal forms part of the subject chosen for the International Exhibition 2008, “Water and Sustainable Development”, and in the actions around this event, such as the Water Tribune, with the participation of the main leaders and world-wide experts in this field; the Charter of Zaragoza, to be signed at the end of the Expo; or the nomination of our city as headquarters of the Agency of the United Nations for the Decade of Water.

Zaragoza practices what it preaches and is culminating a Plan of Improvement for the Management and Quality of Water, with an investment of 81.5 million euros. This plan is getting important results such as the reduction in 20 Hm3 of the consumption of drinking water in the city in the last ten years, the renovation of basic facilities such as the water-treatment plant and the supply depots, the modernisation of pipes network, the installation of intermediate chlorinating stations, or the connection to the two purifying plants of use water in nearly all the municipal territory.

Zaragoza is placed in the confluence of three rivers, the Ebro and its tributaries Huerva and Gállego, and of an artificial canal, the Canal Imperial de Aragon. Consequently, the city has never suffered from scarcity in water provision, although its quality, mainly throughout the 20th century, has been affected since the river basin is composed predominantly of limestone, and because of the upstream pollution derived mainly from industrial and agricultural uses.

For that reason, in the two last decades, the improvement in the quality of drinking water has been a constant worry for the Government of the city. Important works, investments, and sensitisation campaigns for have been implemented, so that citizens can become conscious that water is a limited resource and must be adequately used.

More recently, while the project to bring water from the Pyrenees was launched in order to improve the quality in the city supply (already implemented and starting at the end of this year), the City of Zaragoza has signed an agreement with the State Society Aguas de la Cuenca del Ebro, S.A. depending of the Ministry of Environment, by which the Government of the city commits itself to implement a Plan to improve its water infrastructures. The Plan, passed in 2002, lasts 7 years, and more than a 85% has been carried out. These are its main actions:

Improve the quality of water

The main action consists of building a network of intermediate facilities for chlorination in order to obtain, in agreement with Community requirements, the most uniformed chlorine level in the network. At present, three of these intermediate stations have been built and put into service, and a project for 4 more stations is being drawn up. Only with the first stage, the chlorine consumption has been reduced in a 17%, going from 450 tons/year to 300 tons/year. Also, from 2003 onwards, powdered active carbon is used in a systematic way as a way to improve the quality of water when it presents bad characteristics. The average consumption per year is about 200 tons.

Improve the quality control

Different equipments have been implemented to improve the control in the quality of water in the water-treatment plant, and also to control the distribution network, made by the Municipal Institute of Public Health, with a global investment of 0.55 M €.

Improve of the facilities

The main work consists of a complete remodelling of Casablanca tanks, which in practical terms supposes the construction of completely new full covered deposits, taking advantage of the place occupied by the existing ones, dating from the beginning of the 20th0 century and with a capacity equivalent to the water consumption of the city in a day (180,000 m3s). The work has been very complex, since it has been carried out keeping in service a part of the old tanks, in order to guarantee the supply. 19.5 million euros have been invested.

On the other hand, the plant for treating muds and recovering the water consumed in the purification process, has been working with total normality from its implementation, allowing the recovery of approximately 5 Hm3/years of water that previously were spilled to the river, producing an important pollution by suspended matter.

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Renovation of the distribution

This is the most important action in terms of the necessary investment, since it will suppose a 65%, and is a direct consequence of Community requirements to reduce the number leaks in a very significant percentage. 128 km of pipes has been renovated from the approval of the Plan, to a large extent with pipes made of fibrecement (108 km) and grey cast iron (15 km). In addition, 3 km of reinforced concrete pipe have been rehabilitated. During this time, the overall length of the city network has been increased in about 180 km, essentially as a result of the construction of new built-up areas. The general panorama of the distribution network has changed in a significant way during this period, since the materials that are considered suitable (ductile cast iron, polythene and rehabilitated stretches) have passed from a 37% of the total when the Plan was drawn up, to a 57.3% at present. In the same way, the most problematic materials (fibrecement and grey cast iron) have gone from 48.3% to 30.9%.

Consumption management

A great effort has been made to renovate and digitalise the municipal park of water meters, as well as to detect anomalous situations and place meters in all the municipal facilities, in order to have an effective control over the consumption. In addition, from 2003 a campaign is being implemented to reward water saving citizens, with advantages to those that have reduced their consumption in a 10% during the last year, from which more than 180,000 users have benefited. The tariff system also has been reformed so that water saving is rewarded and wasting penalised. All these actions form part of the campaign “Zaragoza, a water saving city”, that is being implemented from 1997 with a spectacular impact and results.

Automation of the process

Activities of very different types are considered, for example the empowerment of agreements in order to carry out research and sensitization works, endorsement of materials and products, homogenization of the indicators, adaptation of quality norms and improvement of the attention to the user, with an investment of 0.49 Ms €.

The most visible result of the implementation of this Plan has been very significant reduction in the total consumption of water in the city, passing from 80 Hm3 per year at the time the Plan was drawn up, to 64 Hm3 at its conclusion. In this way, Zaragoza shows its commitment with water, being an example for average-size cities in a sustainable management of this basic resource.

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A committed city Measures to mitigate climate change, reduce water consumption and extend green areas, in order to make Zaragoza a city committed to sustainability. Thanks to an improvement of natural environments and plans to favour biodiversity, a 38% of the municipal land has some kind of official protection

The measures taken by the City of Zaragoza in the last years to reduce the greenhouse effect gases that produce Climate Change, cut down water consumption, and intensify biodiversity plans, deepen into the development of a sustainable urban development able to guarantee the quality of life of the citizens of Zaragoza. These actions, the introduction of environmental management systems, and the improvement in waste management are the fundamental axes in which the environmental policy of the City Council is based on.

Zaragoza is one of the cities traditionally committed to fight against climate change. The most important actions have been oriented to reduce CO2 emissions, getting positive and hopeful results in spite of the growth of the population and the industrial boost undergone by the city.

In fact, the Common and Specific Indicators of Zaragoza (Indicadores Comunes y Específicos de Zaragoza) show that, in the last ten years, there has been a reduction of 5.82% in the amount of emissions per inhabitant and year.

Mitigate climate change

The Strategy to Mitigate Climate Change and Improve Air Quality (Estrategia para la Mitigación del Cambio Climático y la Mejora de la Calidad del Aire – ECAZ), has been a starting point to improve the air conditions in the city. This plan has had a direct effect on urban mobility, which already had a Sustainable Mobility Plan. This plan combines big capacity means of transport- tram, underground, commuter train- with the consolidation of the bus and bike tracks networks, an dissuasive car parks --five of them projected in the main accesses to the city-- and the pedestrianization of wide areas of the historic centre – 40,000 m2 in 2015. Biofuel has been also introduced in a 30% of the buses.

At the moment, 22% of the fleet has reduced pollution. This system is also imposed in vehicles from other municipal contracts.) Industries also take part in ECAZ (with plans to relocate them outside of the city and reduce emissions, although assuring its stay in the communal area. Regarding the residential sector, the City is boosting new norms for the use of renewable energies in new buildings, and plans for restoring urban complexes from the 60s with bioclimatic architecture criteria, with the aid of the EU, (such as at el Picarral district).

In this sense, a new norm is foreseen for implementing the use of renewable energies, for reaching a 40% power saving in new buildings, and a 30% in restored dwellings.

The objective for the future is to reduce CO2 emission per inhabitant and year, from 2.81 tons in 2005 to 1.97 in 2015, supposing a reduction of nearly a 30%.

Alternative energies

The use of renewable energies contributes also to mitigate the emission of greenhouse effect gases, and a bet to reduce dependency on fossil fuels. The use of wind and sun energy, taking advantage of the hours of sun and the usual winds in the city, has overcome the most optimistic forecasts. Zaragoza has 31 wind parks in operation, producing 614 megawatts, over the 400 foreseen for the year 2010. These good results have forced us to establish a new goal for the end of the decade, fixing it in 700 wind MW.

Fight against noise

The City Council is also fighting against noise, an element present in every big city. The City Council has always been very sensitive to the effects brought about by noise and in fact, Zaragoza, from decades ago, has been one of the first cities in drawing up a noise map to analyse the real situation of the city and study palliative measures.

At present, a new map has updated all the values, applying also European Union criteria, in order to implement a Strategic Plan to help us improve the quality of life of every citizen.

Biodiversity

Another basic mainstay of the environmental work that the City of Zaragoza is developing, is the definition of Biodiversity protection. Almost a 38% of the land in the municipal area, one of the widest in Spain, is protected in some way. 561 species of fauna are registered, 51 catalogued; and 1,093 species of flora. One of the most important policies developed in this field is the protection of trees.

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A digitalised cartography of the 92,500 trees in the streets of the city has been done for knowing the life of each tree and make its preservation easier. At the same time, city parks have been improved and new ones have been built, with a total number of 70, and a quarter million of trees.

The most emblematic park of the city, Parque Primo de Rivera (known popularly as the Parque Grande), designed by Sevillian Xavier Winthuyssen, has celebrated its 75 years of life.

The most important natural areas around the city must be added to this green patrimony: the Galacho de Juslibol a meander left for the Ebro, formed in 1962 after a flooding of the river, and one of the most important humid areas in the South of Europe; Vedado de Peñaflor, an area of 600 hectares and 120,000 trees, with specific protection policies; Montes de Torrero, an area of 300 hectares that has obtained the Certificate of Sustainable Forest Management; and the banks of the river Gállego.

Therefore, Zaragoza has approximately 1.3 million trees, with a ratio of 35 m2 of green area per inhabitant, being the second Spanish city in natural wealth.

Zaragoza is also building a green ring to link the linear parks of the Ebro, Gallego, Canal Imperial de Aragón and the Huerva, turning this enormous roundabout into a pedestrian and bike track, and improving the three rivers that cross the city and that have turned Zaragoza into a coveted place through history.

All the implemented actions for improving environment are based on participation, and also in education and awareness programmes, some of them with a great tradition and strong demand, and considered to be fundamental in moving towards a sustainable city. More than a hundred citizen organizations, with 21 commissions specialised in Climate Change, Municipal By laws, Environmental Taxes, Biodiversity, Waste and Water, form part of the Agenda 21 Local Council.

A good example to show that Zaragoza has increased the number of organisations and citizens who adapt their habits to sustainable criteria is water saving, despite population growth in the last years. Zaragoza has gone from 106 million m3 spent in 1979, when it had 550,000 inhabitants, to use 64.4 million m3 in 2007, with 680,000 inhabitants.

Domestic consumption is exemplary, since the citizens of Zaragoza spend 126 litres per inhabitant and day, compared to the 176 litters on average in Spain. The improvement in the infrastructures (tanks and pipes), the use of new irrigation technologies (forming part of European projects), and the launching of projects for improving management are making the rest.

The presence of Zaragoza in international networks and in the development of European projects is also important for an easier implementation of initiatives and pilot programs, and also for pooling results and extrapolating all the actions to reduce the consumption of resources and the deterioration of the environment.

Metropolitan Park of Water

The Metropolitan Park of Water, bigger than the Parque del Retiro in Madrid, is the natural symbol of the new Zaragoza, with its more than 40,000 shrubs and 25,000 trees and a multifunctional character that makes it unique. An example of urban and natural integration with different facilities such as:

1) A thermal centre combining the traditional concept of public baths with the most modern hydrotherapy technologies.

2) A “pitch&putt” of nine holes with minigolf and test field.

3) A white water canal 350 metres long and a slope of 6, for all kind of public and authorised for organising international competitions.

4) An adventure area for families with two multi-adventure circuits for adults and children, with tyrolean traverses, rockodrome, and soon, and area for archery.

5) A big botanical garden with the theme of water, in which there is from water plants to plants from arid areas.

6) A bathing area with two water swimming pools, with water purified in a natural way, and a sand beach with more than 5,000 m2 and 200 palms.

But the most important of this new Park is to be a model of sustainability and respect for nature. Thus, all the native vegetal mass of the Meander has been preserved and placed around its perimeter, assuring in this way the natural geomorphologic processes of the river banks.

The maintenance of the park is articulated around an integral closed water system, starting from catching water from the river, its purification and use in watering and bathing areas, and finally its return to the canal, completely filtered in an ecological and natural way (through decanting sheets with vegetation). All the water is distributed through a network of canals and pools in all the Metropolitan Water Park.

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The Park also has many adapted and bike tracks, trails for athletes and wide green areas for relaxation such as prairies of public use. A green lung three times bigger than the natural centre of Zaragoza until now -the Parque Grande- and that will turn the business park into a more privileged area.

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Bringing forward the future Milla Digital is a project to create a City of Innovation and Knowledge, with housing, companies and facilities, under a common guideline centred in activities related to information, innovation and new technologies, and urbanism of great quality and advanced telecommunication infrastructures, for the benefit of residents and companies established in its area. A project for a 21sth century city in the same heart of the historical Zaragoza.

With a total surface of a million squared metres, Milla Digital will be located in the surroundings of the old “El Portillo” station and in the new of “Delicias”. Yesterday, today and tomorrow joined in a unique, privileged space, devised in all its forms of expression to respond to the demands of knowledge society.

Milla Digital is a key project for the City Council of Zaragoza in order to help companies, institutions and citizens to position themselves for forming part of the economic and social environment of the 21st century.

From the total surface foreseen to develop the project in the new AVE (High Speed Train) district, 250,000 square metres will be devoted to green areas and 108,000 to equipments. At the same time, only 150,000 squared metres will be reserved for building 3,396 dwellings, whereas 215,000 square metres will go to other uses different (shops, tertiary, hotels…).

El Portillo area is going also to undergo a remarkable development transformation. In this extension of 93,000 squared metres where the old railway station was located, 45,000 squared metres will be devoted to green areas and 16,000 to equipments. This area will include 220 new dwellings and a great tower for offices. Between both areas, a zone of 243,000 square metres to be developed will be devoted to tertiary uses, with a capacity to house between 4,000 and 5,000 workers.

The general concept for the design of Milla Digital consists of the visual and functional link of different elements, through a network of equipments and public areas devoted to multiple educational and community uses, and special urban elements. This network will be made up of digital and physical elements superimposed within the urban space.

The physical elements will guarantee the access from the South end of El Portillo to the area of the intermodal station of Delicias, including communications through a bridge from the districts to the South and the West, whereas the digital elements will cover completely the physical structure by means of digital infrastructures (intelligent lightning, panels of interactive information, etc.), environmental technology (wireless technological access, ubiquitous free connectivity to the Internet, location services, etc), and public digital areas (promotion of the relation between people and public areas).

Milla Digital includes four specific areas: el Portillo, Almozara, Paseo del Agua and Puerta Expo. Four areas linked to each other in a unique permeable and accessible urban space from the different districts of the city, that will form what is called Campus Milla Digital, in agreement with the proposal made by the MIT in the document “Zaragoza – Milla Digital: Designing a new century public realm” (2006), drawn up by the MIT School of Architecture.

The idea of a Campus helps to foreshadow a designed urban space with different innovating activities. This is a citizen Campus opened to everybody with proposals for all, a new urban and cultural experience. At the same time, this concept takes us to the underlying idea that the different public facilities of the area form part of a network with some common elements related to the objectives, management or activities.

Evidently, the idea of the Campus Milla Digital gets all its visual expression and creative force in the linear park formed by the areas of el Portillo and La Almozara park. This area will be the main visual, singular and identifiable expression of Milla Digital, as a route (Paseo del Agua); connection between the city centre, the AVE and the Expo; and gate to Zaragoza for welcoming visitors and virtual and physical connection with Knowledge Society.

That identification intention will be channelled, above all, by both cultural facilities (Museo de la Milla/Mediateca at el Portillo and the Centro de Arte y Tecnología at the Park of the Almozara), and by other three public digital spaces.

Although Milla Digital project is in an initial development stage, from June its first building, the Digital Water Pavilion which picks up the global essence of the plan and incarnates the technological innovation line of the project, is opened. This pavilion is placed at Expo´s South entrance, in the square giving access from the right bank to the Expo venue, together to the Pavilion Bridge made by Zaha Hadid.

The pavilion, designed by the architects Carlo Ratti and Walter Nicolino in collaboration with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology –MIT-, is remarkable by its innovating and avant-garde appearance, especially in its interior. Its facades are water sheets digitally controlled by special valves which allow to project any kind of design and messages on asfacades, as well as the opening of the entrance when visitors approach.

In the same way, a part of the pavilion could be controlled and modified so that it can rise its maximum height (four metres) and even descending to ground level, making visible only some of its internal modules.

For more information visit www.milladigital.es

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European logistic centre The Logistic Platform PLAZA is of the areas of reference in the industrial, economic and commercial activity of Zaragoza, that with the Expo, is the best example of the specialisation of the city in key sectors such as logistics, recycling, and water and sustainable development

With almost 1,300 hectares, Zaragoza Logistics Platform (PLAZA) is the biggest logistics area of the European Union. Its management, execution and promotion mainly depends on the Government of Aragon, the City of Zaragoza and the two main banks of the Autonomous Community, Ibercaja and Caja de Ahorros de la Inmaculada.

PLAZA is based on the concept of intermodal transport centre (railroad, highway and plane). A combination that has turned Zaragoza into one of the most important logistics cities of the continent, with connections with the most important European centres of production and consumption.

The intermodality reinforces the values of location and centrality of this area that is completely opened to the participation of companies in activities related to logistics, and which is serviced by PLAZA through a series of collective equipments and common services that multiply profitability due to its location. Intermodality also means crucial synergies in the logistics chains, needed by every operator.

PLAZA has been the place chosen by more than 300 national and international leading companies in their sectors – INDITEX, Imaginarium, Memory Seth, Porcelanosa, TDN, DHL Express, Barclays Bank, Mann Filter…-, due to its extension and location in the diagonal of the European Southwest, and also to its intermodal capacity.

The strategic value of PLAZA, where around 11,000 people is working, lies in the strength of its communications network, bordering to the North with the Canal Imperial de Aragón; to the West with the Airport of Zaragoza; to the East with the Fourth Ring Road, and to the South and Southeast with Aragon dual carriageway and the railway line of high speed –which will have in the future its own stop at the Platform.

The global project of PLAZA includes different areas with no relation with logistics, that will enrich and complement the project. The areas are three:

PLAZA Imperial

A shopping and leisure centre with over 26 hectares, 13 of them occupied by shopping areas. The investment of 230 million Euros and its length of 1.5 kilometres, has taken the promoters to devise a system of internal transport by monorail. PLAZA has 6,000 parking places.

Leading companies such as Decathlon, El Corte Inglés or McDonalds have already settled and opened their doors in the complex, and soon –this summer- will be finished the second phase which includes a great shopping gallery with the main national and international names from fashion, restoration, leisure and entertainment.

One of the main attractions of PLAZA is Autoplaza. A car dealer just opened, with the most important car brands and other products related to the sector such as after-sales service, credit facilities, insurance and a “CAR OUTLET” -an area devoted to second hand cars-.

Once PLAZA had consolidated its activity and working in full, nearly 13,000 people, taking into account direct and indirect jobs, will be working there.

Zaragoza PLAZA Center

This is PLAZA business center, a place in the heart of the Platform. A campus where companies will have their administrative and economic headquarters, in a harmonious environment of buildings, green and recreational areas, shops, leisure and restoration. Almost 100,000 m2 for tertiary uses in modern buildings. A hotel with 176 rooms will complete the facilities of this authentic “business district”.

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Leaders on innovation and specialisation

The Technological Recycling Park is directed to all kind of activities and industries in relation with new products transformation and production, from industrial residues –in the whole or partly-, capables of being used again for the new products obtaining

In March 2004 started the construction of the new Technological Recycling Park (PTR) of Zaragoza, one of the biggest, most modern and specialised industrial polygons, having the best services in the whole of Spain. The PTR has 835 hectares, with an investment of about 1,803 million Euros. When finished, it will have more than 411 hectares for special industrial use, more than 215 has of green areas, 17 has for shopping and tertiary uses, and 14,000 parking places. Only in infrastructures, the investment will be 120 million Euros, creating about 5,000 direct jobs and 8,000 -10,000 indirect.

Activities related to waste management form part of its special industrial uses: collection, storage, selective separation, reusability, recycling and valuation of the obtained raw materials by means of its reintroduction in different productive processes. 24 million cubic metres of land will turned over, and 540 kilometres of main canalisation will be carried out.

The main plant –already made and equipped- will work by municipal concession and is passing working tests. It is expected to enter into operation in the next months.

The first companies of waste treatment are already operative. The last incorporation has been a company specialised in the recovery of tyres, therefore Zaragoza is already able to recycle all this kind of material.

The main plant, which will work by municipal concession, is completely built and equipped, and at the moment is being tested. It is expected to be working in the next months.

The first companies of waste treatment are working. The last one has been a firm specialised in the recovery of tires, reason why Zaragoza soon will be able to absorb all the waste of this material to reuse them with other aims.

The new R&D&i processes applied in this sector and the excellent human capital of this Autonomous Community for its application, makes possible a reduction of costs, obtaining new raw materials coming from recycling that will be reintroduced in the productive processes.

Thus, the Technological Recycling Park will apply the most advanced technologies in the field of the management and reusability of second generation materials. The objective is to make profitable and easily accessible products that, until now, needed strong investments to make them feasible as new raw materials.

It tries also to act, not only in Research and Development, but also in spreading the results of the researches and examples of positive practices.

Actions for training all the implied parts in the management of quality and actions to know long-term trends in research, innovation and supply of recyclable waste are also proposed.

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Engaged with the inhabitants Zaragoza city planning stimulates its most social aspect, giving priority to building subsidised homes. The most important project is Arcosur, a new district with 21,000 homes, 60% subsidised

The renovation of the city and the creation of new emergent areas is being implemented by the development action of the municipal Government of Zaragoza, but, above all, the efforts are focusing on building subsidised houses.

From 2001, year in which the current Urban Planning Programme (Plan de Ordenación Urbana) was passed, the City Council has developed plots of lands in different areas of the city for building 54,995 homes. At this moment, there is developed land for other 29,000 dwellings, 16,800 (58%) subsidised.

This land will allow Zaragoza to follow up with its habitual building rate for the next five years; that is to say, an average of 5,500 dwellings per year. However, the Urban Planning Department continues to work in the management of new developments to have always land to attend the needs of the city at every moment, avoiding a sudden stop in the economic activity.

This autumn, the development works of Arcosur, an expansion area at the South of the city, will start as a result of the agreement signed in 2002 to build 21,148 homes in 440 hectares, 60% of them subsidised. This is the most important project for building subsidised dwellings carried out in Zaragoza after Valdespartera (with approximately 10,000 subsidised homes) However, the City favours this kind of homes in all the districts of Zaragoza, such as those carried out, among others, in the districts of La Paz, La Jota, Valdefierro, La Cartuja, Miralbueno or San Gregorio, with also an important number of accessible and quality homes. In this sense, it can also be emphasised the 11,000 licenses given for building bioclimate buildings.

Land for businesses and commercial uses

City-planning management not only is focusing in residential land, but also a special importance is given to the business field, avoiding companies to establish themselves outside of the municipality, due to business extension or a change in orientation.

Based on this idea Polígono Empresarium is born, next to La Cartuja district, and offering 3 million m2 in its first stage and the same number in the second, currently being processed. In order to guarantee the development of any economic initiative, the city has also 11 million m2 at PLAZA and 8 million m2 at the PTR.

With regard to tertiary and non industrial uses, private initiatives such as Puerto Venecia (526,000 m2), Aragonia or Plaza Imperial, - this one implemented by the Government of Aragon and supposing a landmark for the city-, can be mentioned. Zaragoza modernization

On parallel to the development of subsidised homes, Zaragoza pays attention to the modernization of its infrastructures and facilities, and to the growth of its districts. From January to June, the Urban Planning Department has committed to complete 13 key works for the transformation of Zaragoza, with a global investment of 143,691.906 Euros. Among others, Oliver Green Corridor, which will turn a railway line into a pedestrian path; the Seminary, that has supposed the conversion of a seminarians centre in the most operational and modern headquarters for a good part of the municipal services, among them the Urban Planning Department; the Museum of the Fire, an effort to preserve our heritage, giving a new use to an old convent. The same happens with the old sugar refinery at el Arrabal and the flour factory at San José, preserving these industrial remains from the beginning of the 20th century, although reorienting its function and opening them to the citizen.

Sports projects have also multiplied, for example La Camisera football fields, that have brought about an increase in the number of children in teams, and civic centres and meeting places for every citizen but mainly oriented to the own district. Elderly people centres and libraries in all the districts of the city complete a wide network of services for improving the quality of life of the citizens.

New icons

Forming part of the urban transformation that Zaragoza is experimenting, new iconic places are built such as Lagos of Valdespartera, which emphasise the strong link and respect of Zaragoza to water.

Without a doubt, one of the new elements of reference of Zaragoza is the Headquarters of the Local Police, between the

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But this is only the tip of the iceberg of a programme implemented in the last years to carry out a radical transformation of the city. This transformation includes also new sports pavilions equipped with the most modern facilities and relaxation areas such as the pavilion Siglo XXI or Pepe Garcés pavilion. The old Torrero prison, placed at the heart of one of the most traditional districts of the city, has been demolished to be turned into equipments for the district and apartment buildings. Five schools for children have been built, increasing the number of available places, and the large network of facilities for elderly people continues to be kept.

New swimming pools have been built, a sports facility of great importance in a city with torrid summers, and present in all the districts of the city.

Zaragoza has also opened a new camping site built with quality criteria, in a consolidated natural environment for holding 900 campers, who will be able to choose between bungalow, shelter or tent. This facility has been built with bioclimatic criteria and has cost 12.8 million Euros.

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Plan of Sustainable Mobility

Zaragoza has an Comprehensive Transport Plan that covers all the mobility needs of the city and its surroundings, and that also must be respectful with environment, urban landscape and cultural heritage. A Plan that gives an answer to the future evolution of the city. A Plan environmentally sustainable to reduce the use of fuel, polluting emissions such CO2 and the levels of city noises. A Plan that extends green and leisure areas, that will improve the quality of life of the citizens and will give back the streets to the people. A modern and innovating Plan to incorporate the most advanced international mobility developments to the city of Zaragoza

What is the Plan of Sustainable Mobility?

• A technical project based on the most innovating developments of international urban mobility • A balanced project that combines different means of transport such as tram, metro, bus, suburban train… • A successful model tested in the main European cities • Respects environment: reduces polluting emissions (CO2), fuel consumption and noise • Increases green areas and trees in the city • Recovers areas for the citizens • Reinforces road security • Reduce urban distances • Improves quality and effectiveness: speed, accessibility, comfort

The Plan of Sustainable Mobility aims at finding an answer to the main mobility problems of Zaragoza and its surroundings, an area that, after resisting for a long time, goes towards congestion due to the growth of car ownership and the daily use of vehicles which emits an increasing pollution. The Plan tries to maintain and, as far as possible, increase the participation of non-polluting individual and collective means of transport for increasing mobility, a basic trend to turn the city and its area of influence to sustainability.

The Plan of Sustainable Mobility of Zaragoza has several fundamental axes of action:

New Pedestrian Routes A 37.8 percent of the trips of more than five minutes made by the inhabitants of Zaragoza are on foot and, nevertheless, as in many other cities, this demand does not deserve much attention. In order to satisfy those needs, in our opinion is important that pedestrians can recover the urban space, that their displacements can be made with comfort and, if possible, in a pleasant way; it would be desirable to reclaim the street for the pedestrians so that they suffered the least possible interferences from traffic. Always has been an initial opposition against the introduction of this kind of actions, especially by shop owners, but later, people opposing this measures have been the greatest defenders of pedestrianization. Therefore, three types of proposals has been dealt with for the year 2016:

• Selection of environmental areas to ease traffic (Areas 30) • Programme of pedestrian trails • Programme for restricting the access to vehicles into areas of the city centre.

There will be also lanes for the exclusive use of buses, a tram line or light rail transit, and network of cycle tracks.

Railway network The main target of this proposal is to present a feasible action for improving the quality of the service and reducing the cost of the transport system of Zaragoza and its metropolitan area, through:

• The introduction of a new powerful, high speed and without interference service to the city centre. • New points on the outskirts of the city to connect with the railway network in order to do the longest or the most difficult stretch of the route. • New connection points in the city to make possible a better and more comfortable way of traveling, without being the time spend traveling a fundamental election factor. • To incorporate Zaragoza to the group of Spanish metropolitan areas where railway commuting, supported by the general budgets of the State, form part of the transport system.

Interchange Transport Network The main target of this proposal has been reached by the following objectives:

• Reduce the number of buses in the areas of city where is more difficult to drive and where the schedule speed is lower. • Finding locations for a diversified connection of these suburban, local or regional destinations, through underground or urban transport on surface. • Arranging information systems to make easier the knowledge and possibilities for all the potential users. • Establishing procedures for updating the information and its dissemination to the user. • Accumulating a production stock coming from savings, that can be used in the areas where a bigger offer is needed.

Proposal for a Tram-Light Rail Transit and an urban, suburban and county bus service

Zaragoza bus network was planned long time ago and evolved by additions, prolonging the itinerary of the lines, modifying its frequencies, and building some new lines without altering substantially the system. In this period, apart from the growth and expansion of the city, a substantial modification of land uses in different areas of the city has taken place, due to a bigger availability of leisure time and an important increase in the number of vehicles. These would be reasons enough to consider a rearrangement of the bus network but also to:

• Create a tram or light rail transit line • Possible extension of this line forming a network and • In order to draw up a suburban service plan using the underground facilities not used after the opening of the high speed line, will need a step by step rearrangement of the urban bus network, having a strong point in the tram or light rail transit line.

This rearrangement should meet the following principles or criteria:

• Optimization of the routes• Adaptation of the routes to implement contributions and distributions of the demand to the commuting network. • Adaptation of the routes to attract a demand of car parks in the outskirts of the city. New routes to cover areas without service and to attend the 35.4 percent of the population that declares not to use the collective transport for lack of service. • Frequencies matching the demand. • Attention paid to the connection of the urban terminals of the suburban and county bus lines.

The special attention deserved by the network of urban buses operated by Tuzsa, both for the volume of the demand and for the municipal resources used, should not be an obstacle to review with the same zeal the suburban network that, serving to a 1/25 of the users of the urban network, needs almost a third of the public budget to balance it. Therefore, the Intermodal Transport Plan will define the new network, as far as the itineraries and frequencies of the services at the different seasons of the year, and also the hours and days of the week, providing the grounds for:

• Renegotiating the contract with TUZSA, taking into account the modifications put forward.

• Renegotiating, in a specific way on the date of expiry and in a general and immediate way, the agreements for the sale of services with bus companies in charge of interurban concessions which give service to the districts of Zaragoza.

The following proposals will be put forward in this document:

• a tram network for the year 2010 and an extension for the year 2015 • An urban bus network for the year 2008, another one for the year 2010, and the last for 2015, coinciding with the construction of the interchange stations and the launching of the first tram line and its extension. • A network of suburban and local buses for 2008 and another one for 2015, coinciding with the construction of interchange stations and tram lines.

All this related to the planning of lanes exclusively for buses, with interchange stations, a pedestrian network, a bike network, and with the suburban service proposed.

Car Parks The objective of this proposal is to contribute ideas to apply a parking policy for a better work of the transport system. The best parking arrangement is based on the specialisation in the use of land so that roads can be used for vehicular traffic and not to be occupied by stopped vehicles; that is to say, the owners of the vehicles will have a car park out of the roads, in order not to park them in the street, and settling down limitations to have parking places in destination for non-residential uses, in order to prevent those kind of trips. This action, of course, must be accompanied by an availability of collective transport so that citizens can make a free election and have a behaviour to make the city more sustainable, pleasant and human. All this must be included in a restrictive policy that, on the other hand, can approach parking prices to its real cost. The people

who arrive at the city in their own vehicles must find alternatives ways of access from the modal transference centres and car parks out of the city to the collective ways of transports railroad and bus.

Unique fare The objective of this proposal is to promote the application of a unique fare system for tickets to make a trip using the necessary or advisable means of one or several companies, and with a single ticket. In this document appear:

• In the first part, the theoretical foundations and criteria that must be considered for the integration. • A brief analysis of the different transport networks that can be integrated. • A proposal for a zoning and an integrated fare system. The development of an economic model will allow us to evaluate the impacts, that from the point of view of the users, operators and Administrations, would have that proposal.

Cycle tracks

The objective of this proposal is to elaborate a plan of cycle tracks with complete itineraries for circulating around all the city, and linking villages with a minimum risk of conflict with private vehicles. The type of planning to be elaborated here is based on establishing the necessary measures so that cyclists can move in a suitable way. This includes the design of appropriate infrastructures for trips and parking (included in the car park proposal), as well as measures to regulate the interference with other ways such as the establishment of priorities or measures for speed reduction. It is also possible to notice that a cycle network is not enough to empower this type of mobility. The policies of “prohibition” of other ways, usually have important effects in the boosting of this type of mobility, making cities more passable.

Improvement of the quality of the service: Information and Attention to the User

The main target of this action has been reached through the following sub-objectives: • The potential user must identify clearly the means made available by the system to satisfy its needs. • To establish simple identification criteria for the typology of the supplied services, suitably arranged in order of importance. • To arrange information systems in order to circulate information on the network and its possibilities to all the potential users. • To establish procedures for the updating of information, so that this information can reach the user. • To give an answer to the worries of the travellers, both during and after the trip.

Possible feasibility of Minibus-Taxi on demand The main target of this proposal is to look for formulas to avoid, as far as possible, a total dependency on private vehicles in some areas, trying not to incur in costs as high as those that the establishment of a system so reduced of regular lines of public transport on demand would suppose. These formulas can be grouped under the concept of transport on demand, and its main characteristic is that the user does not adapt to the existing supply, but is the demand that determines the services to be offered.

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Zaragoza bets on arts and entertainment In 2008, the bicentenary of the Sieges of Zaragoza, one of the historical episodes that have marked the identity of the people of Zaragoza will be celebrated.

The Auditory of Zaragoza welcomes a cycle of classic music with the most prestigious conductors and some of the best voices in the world

2008 is the year the Expo and the bicentenary of the Sieges of Zaragoza will be held. The international exhibition commemorates one hundred years of the Franco-Spanish Exhibition that took place in Zaragoza (1908), and 200 of one of the most important historical episodes for the people of Zaragoza: the two Sieges suffered for the city during the Peninsular War (1808-09). A wide program of activities launched on 29 January 2008, day of the patron saint of the city, with a concert of the Unidad de Música de la Guardia Real, and that will go on to February 2009 when a magnificent exhibition in La Lonja with works from the museums of Versailles, Grenoble, Warsaw, El Prado… will serve to remember that today, like 200 years ago, “Zaragoza not surrenders” and, for that reason, in the last years, has put itself at the cultural level of nearby cities.

Zaragoza has overcome the topic of the Pilar and the Pilar Fiestas to become an inexcusable date in the tours of the great national and international bands, of the most outstanding theater companies, and siege of the best exhibitions on the work and the figure of the brilliant Aragonese painter Francisco de Goya… The presence of first rank artists, an attentive look at emergent tendencies and of course, the defence of its rich historical heritage, have allowed Zaragozato have an outstanding cultural projection.

Museums

Zaragoza has 17 museums. One of the most outstanding is the Museum of Tapestries of la Seo, that houses one of the jewels of the Spanish historical heritage. A total of 63 medieval pieces (Gothic-flemish) woven in the 15th, 16th and 17th centuries by the most famous European workshops, Tournai and Brussels. It is considered as one of the most important collections of Europe, both for its quality and its age, and its peculiarity and high number of pieces.

The Route of Caesaraugusta is a stroll by the museums of the Forum, River Port, Public Thermae and Theater, and is fundamental to understand the past of the city. Zaragoza (Caesaraugusta) was the only Roman city that enjoyed the privilege to have the full name of its founder, Caesar Augustus. At present, the Museum of the Forum preserves part of the two porticoes, and the network of sewers built to improve cleaning and drainage. The Museum of the River Port remembers that the Ebro was navigable from Tortosa to Logroño (Vareia) and that the port of Zaragoza was the most important and the centre for the distribution of merchandises of the valley. On the other hand, the Museum of the Thermae preserves one of the pools. Finally, the Museum of the Theater of Caesaraugusta reflects the magnitude and majesty of the building (6,000 places for a population of 18,000 people) being a model very much used in the Mediterranean world.

Another essential stop is the Museum Camón Aznar. It houses the biggest collection of engravings by Goya and the collection of art, from the 15th to the 20th century, bequeathed by the academic José Camón Aznar. The Museum of Zaragoza, actually being remodelled and opened only as an exposition hall, welcomes the exposition “Goya in Italy”, that allows us to know the consolidation stage of this painter as one of the best Spanish artists. The Museum of Zaragoza occupies a building rose for the Franco-Spanish exhibition of 1908 to commemorate the Sieges of Zaragoza, and subsequently to be used as a museum.

Auditorium

After the opening of the Auditorium Conference Hall in 1994, Zaragoza became one of the best equipped European cities in the musical field, since the Mozart hall, with capacity for 1,992 people, has formidable acoustics. Throughout this summer and due to the Expo, the most prestigious conductors, national and international orchestras and unique voices will meet in an excellent cycle of Classical Music directed by Zubin Mehta, counting with a Lyrical Gala with Montserrat Caballé and Montserrat Martí, the JONDE, and a concert of the West-Easter Divan Orchesta conduceted by Daniel Barenboim, …

Theaters

Zaragoza has two municipal theaters –Teatro Principal and Teatro del Mercado- and two private – Teatro de la Estación and Arbolé-. The passion of the people of Zaragoza for the theater dates back from Roman ages. The Teatro Principal, located in the heart of the city, is the most emblematic and loved by the citizens of Zaragoza. From its opening in 1799, the most prestigious names of the World scene have left their track in the first coliseum of the city. The building has been adapted to the times, undergoing several reforms, the most important dating from 1870 when a new inner decoration for the hall was designed, where it can be emphasised the mouth of the stage and the magnificent mouth curtain painted by Marcelino de Unceta. The Teatro Principal we know today was opened on 2 May 1987.

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music shows. Thus, “El guía del Hermitage” will be from 19 to 22 June, with a cast headed by Federico Luppi, Manu Callau and Ana Labordeta. From 8 to 10 Augusts, a piece by José Saramago, “In nómime Dei”, by the Centro Andaluz de Teatro, directed by the extraordinary José Antonio Plaza, with more than 20 actors on stage. From 13 August to 7 September, “Cómeme el coco, negro” by La Cubana. To end with this theater programme of the Expo period, from 11 to 14 of September, “Hamlet” directed by Juan Diego Botto. Also in September, from 17 to 21, it will be represented “Sitios Saragosse”, a production of the Fundación Zaragoza 2008 with direction and playwriting by Mariano Anós.

Great concerts

From years, Zaragoza has been a scale in the great tours of the most popular singers and bands from our country and abroad. Rolling Stones, REM, Metallica… have been in the city in the last years. Throughout the summer, Amaral, Enio Morricone, the musical FAMA, Juanes, Bob Dylan, Bunbury or Gloria Estefan will be some of the artists who will stop in Zaragoza to captivate on the stage to thousands of fans.

Zaragoza will hold also on 29 June the Hip Hop Party, the most outstanding activity from the program Zaragoza Ciudad, that already has become a “brand mark” of the city, unquestionable capital of the national hip-hop. The access to the Hip Hop Party is free, for encouraging citizens who do not know the prestige of this cultural movement to approach the hip-hop phenomenon. Violadores del Verso, the authentic “godfathers” of Zaragoza Ciudad from its beginnings, will be the great protagonists of the festival.

Literature

The International Prize of Historical Novel City of Zaragoza started in 2005. It was launched to be different from the rest of literary prizes granted in Spain. The objective has been achieved, rewarding novels already published in Spanish and presented by the own publishing houses.

When the prize was created four years ago, the historical novel was chosen for two main reasons. The first is the excellent health of this genre, and the second is that Zaragoza, with its more than 2,000 years of history and with its rich historical and cultural heritage, is the ideal place for this prize.

The International Prize of Historical Novel City of Zaragoza is endowed with 25,000 Euros. In the present edition, the Italoamerican female author Ben Pastor has won with the work “Conspiratio. The case of the water thief”, published by Seix Barral. An Honour Prize is also granted, given this year to Antonio Gala.

The award will take place on 19 June in the City Hall. In that act, apart from the two writers awarded, will attend James Patterson, the most sold author in the world, that will come for the first time to Europe.

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Zaragoza, among treasures Zaragoza is an interesting city to visit due to its wide offer of business, conferences and conventions, cultural, religious, sports and gastronomic and incentive tourism,... The city has an adequate infrastructure to satisfy the most demanding visitor. in a neuralgic centre of communications, Zaragoza has a millenarian history that can be seen in its innumerable corners and beautiful buildings. A city of services with the highest quality that surprises the visitor at every step. Zaragoza enjoys unique qualities: hospitality, the proximity of its inhabitants, their open character, their innovating spirit and having a project for the future. All this has put Zaragoza in a special place within European cities.

The cultural heritage of Zaragoza is rich and varied, having more than two thousand years of history and being the result of an exchange and mix of cultures.

Roman Zaragoza

Over the old Iberian-Sedetan fortress of Salduie was founded the only Roman city with the privilege of having received the full name of its founder, Caesaraugusta.

The remains from this age are two paleochristian sarcophagi kept in the Crypt of Santa Engracia Basilica, and also the Roman Walls next to the bronze statue of Caesar Augustus, reproduction of the famous Augustus of Prima Porta, and also archaeological sites such as the museums of the Public Thermae, Forum, River Port, and Caesaraugusta Theater, a marvellous archaeological surprise that brings to mind the city when it was founded.

Mudéjar, world heritage

Visiting Zaragoza you have the privilege to be in the centre of the Aragonese Mudejar art, declared as World Heritage by UNESCO. By yourself or by guided visit, the Mudejar route is always advisable. And the time is not important. By night, the lighted Mudejar towers have also its charm. The towers of la Magdalena, San Pablo, San Gil and San Miguel are also enjoyable.

Reinassance Zaragoza

During the 16th century, the view of Zaragoza changed completely. The palaces of nobles and the houses of many citizens reflected the financial development of the Kingdom of Aragon and its capital. Many examples remain, such as la Lonja, the most important civil construction of the 16th century in Aragon, the Courtyard of La Infanta, the House of Miguel Donlope also known as Real Maestranza de Caballería, and the Church Basilica of Santa Engracia with its magnificent portico.

Baroque Zaragoza

The religious monument “par excellence” is the BASÍLICA DEL PILAR, built on the primitive Mozarabic church. This is the symbol of Spanish pilgrimages in honour of the Virgin Mary and a reference point of the European Christian tradition. It contains an impressive Renaissance altarpiece made by Damián Forment and frescoes by Goya.

Goya, the genius and his work

Zaragoza, for several reasons, is a fundamental city to know one of the most important painters of history. Goya was born in the nearby village of Fuendetodos, where he carried out his artistic training and left his first works (especially mural paintings), and excellent paintings and engravings.

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Evolution in the number of visitors in Zaragoza

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PROFILE OF THE TOURISTS The profile of the tourist who arrive at Zaragoza is a person less than 50 years old, with a high-medium cultural level, traveling in his/her own car, in couple, with friends or the family, spending on average 30-60 € by person and day (without including accommodation), staying usually for 2-3 days and with a very high level of global satisfaction with the trip.

In relation to the kind of accommodation used by the people who spend the night in Zaragoza, 20% stays in 3 star hotels, followed by 13% in 4 stars.

According also to these statistics from the Municipal Offices of Tourism, the communities from which the majority of consultations come are Catalonia, Madrid, Andalusia, Valencia Community, Castile-Leon and Euskadi. As far as foreigners, the majority of consultations come from Italy, followed by the United Kingdom, France, South America, Germany and North America.

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Zaragoza has an excellent array of hotels essentially based on quality and diversity.

Quality as a result of a highly professional offer and the long experience characteristic of a city born and conceived as a crossroad and place of meeting, used to receive a kind of tourism interested in culture, business, and the scientific and university fields.

Diversity showed in the wide variety of establishments, from hotels with a long history offering to visitors the flavour and charm of nineteenth-century places with the most advanced infrastructures and services, hotels that put at the disposal of clients the most advanced technology and the most modern architecture.

Category Hotels Room Beds ***** 5 1.091 2.154 **** 16 2.072 4.231 *** 23 1.508 2.592 ** 9 505 1.090 * 4 179 338 Total 57 5.355 10.405

The number of beds available in Zaragoza is now 10,405, increasing the capacity of the city for holding great events, but keeping the standards of quality and variety. 50 hotels and boarding houses, a 1st category camping site and 2 modern youth hostels, have been added in order to contribute to have a supply adapted to every taste and need.

ZARAGOZA CONVENTION CENTER Within the necessary infrastructures for the organization of conferences and concerning Conference Centers, the city has a complete array related to means, magnitude, qualities and location of the facilities, both public and private, which adapts to the needs of everybody. Among them, the Auditorium – Conference Center, a very versatile equipment with many possibilities to be used for conferences and conventions, and able to host from 100 to 2,000 people; and Aragon Conference Center, located in the Expo venue and with a capacity for 1,500 people.

From the most modest meeting to the biggest conference can find in Zaragoza its ideal venue, counting with extraordinary technical services and a highly qualified staff.

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Zaragoza, in the forefront The extraordinary boost made possible by Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), with the Internet as its most important example, allows to create new forms of personal, social, scientific and business relations. Convinced of this premise and of the importance that ICTs have for the present and future, the City Council is boosting to include Zaragoza in the almost unstoppable trend in big European cities, of concentrating the technological activities of advanced services

Being conscious of the importance of an easiest access of citizens to New Technologies to fulfil the above mentioned objective, the City Council promotes actions and services for advancing in that direction. Thus, a modernization process to migrate the municipal desk to free Software is being finished. This process aims at obtaining technological independence and avoiding an exclusive relation with a unique supplier or manufacturer, in order to have a better defence of the general interest of the city and more security.

Yearly payments for license are not required for this modernization, so that will suppose a saving of nearly a million Euros per year and, due to its capacity and automatic update, a bigger life for the computers. The decision to modernize computers, being the result of the commitment of the Mayor, Juan Alberto Belloch, has turned the City Hall of Zaragoza into the most populated City Hall that is using free software, and following national and European guidelines.

The city has also foreseen a Wi-Fi network which already has 15 zones where free wireless access to the Internet can be used. The idea is to include in the future the most important places of the city. After the successful pilot experience developed at Plaza del Pilar, the City Council of Zaragoza has put Wi-Fi in the Parque Primo de Rivera, Parque Tío Jorge, Torreón Fortea, the Auditorium, la Romareda, Palacio de Morlanes, Montemuzo, in the service of Architecture and in the Civic Centres of Delicias, Torrero, Universidad, Estación del Norte and Río Ebro, apart from the City Hall.

One of the technological prides of the City Council of Zaragoza is its municipal Website. Zaragoza.es has become a Web of reference for Spanish City Halls and has been awarded different times in Spain. From 2004, the City of Zaragoza, thanks to the work of the Dirección General de Ciencia y Tecnología and the Municipal Website, has been awarded five national prizes for initiatives taken to promote the quality of life of the citizens and to boost the access to New Technologies. The last one has been the prize awarded by the magazine Trámite Parlamentario by the precise and daily information service for mobile phone through which every morning data on pollen level of every plant for allergic citizens is given.

These national prizes are the result of a hard work “in the shadow” to adapt the Website to the trends and requirements of the market. Thus, the Website zaragoza.es can be consulted from any device and it adapts itself to the characteristics of the device, in order to allow citizens to see the full Website - since it is very different to have access from a wide screen computer or from a mobile phone. An independence from devices and a suitable distribution of the information to facilitate to any handicapped citizen his/her visit to the Web, allows Zaragoza.es to have the “accessibility” very much demanded by users and forced by law for public Administrations, but not very common in virtual pages. So, the municipal Website has one of the first official certificates of accessibility granted by AENOR.

The main page of Zaragoza.es receives an average of 200,000 visits every month, mainly due to the great amount of services that provides to the citizen such as the consultation and inclusion of acts in the agenda of the city, the possibility of asking for the registration certificate or procedures related to traffic fines. Being always innovative, the last service created by the City of Zaragoza has been an application to personalize visits to the city according to the tastes and interests of every tourist. “Planifica tu visita” (“Plan your Visit”) proposes the most adequate route by the city, after the user has specified his/her profile including, for example, the reasons for the trip or the artistic and gastronomical preferences.

The City Council of Zaragoza has become a pioneer in many Science and Technology fields. It has been the first City Council transmitting municipal information through interactive Digital Terrestrial Television (TDT), a service launched in 2006 and which gradually has been extended including many services, among them the possibility of acceding to tourist information, know job vacancies in the City Hall, public notices or urgencies.

In order to make easier the access of citizens to new technologies, the City Council is boosting programs, services and games for the user to become familiar with ICTs. Therefore, educational virtual games, road education or routes by Zaragoza have been created by means of riddles, and, mainly, services from having access through a mobile phone to the whole platform called Zaragoza, Ciudad Móvil.

The citizen can contact every day in a more effective way through an sms. One of the most demanded services is the registration in the census through a short message sent to the number 5010. The City sends the document by postal mail to the address of the citizen. But there are many other services by mobile such as the automatic daily and free sending of pollen levels to the users interested or the possibility to download an street map for searching a concrete street in an easiest way, through the visualization of a map or picture of that street.

Thanks to the Expo and the exponential increase of visits that Zaragoza is receiving, it has been launched a new service for mobile phones “Zaragoza Blue”, that allows citizens to receive for free, through Bluetooth technology, tourist information

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GUIMO has been developed with the same objective, as a multimedia virtual guide to give to the visitor data on cultural activities, monuments, the agenda of the city, singular buildings, opening hours of museums, shops and restaurants, an information on Expo 2008, through using a detailed interactive street guide.

GUIMO is an interactive guide that instantly and without stopping, offers data of the city. GUIMO is also equipped with GPS, which allows to inform the user more accurately, since the exact location of the citizen is known. This way, the visitor can obtain data adapted to his/her interests to enjoy the visit to Zaragoza.

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