We have today received the following request from Madrid for a Twinning Partnership, An English website (pdf) can be found at http://www.ayto-villacanada.es/pdf/guia_ingles.pdfVillanueva de Canada://://http://www.ayto-villacanada.es/pdf/...va de Canada:// for anyone interested.
If this interests your town/community please contact me Here or through the forums and I will pass on the contact details.
Alan
We are a twinning association that is interested in contacting English speaking twinning ones for possible partnerships. We are independent and work in association with our Town Council from whom we get support.
We are very active and presently twinned with Le Vesinet in France, Metepec in Mexico and Madba in Jordan. We have members of various ages and nationalities and are enthusiastic to increase our exchanges with other towns and are open to new projects and ideas, involving all age groups with a variety of activities.
Our town, Villanueva de Cañada is one of the 179 municipalities of the Communidad de Madrid and lies 30 kilometres northwest of Madrid. It currently has a population of more that 16,400 inhabitants with two private universities –Alfonso X "El Sabio" and Camillo José Cela. Additionally, one of the two French schools of Madrid, Lycèe Molière, is located in our town with local schools offering English curricula in addition to their Spanish ones.
There are several sport centres with modern facilities and a well stocked library inaugurated in 2002. Furthermore, the first aquatic park in Madrid was built in our town, being one of Europe's largest outdoor water leisure facilities. The town also boasts a Country Club that offers an 18-hole golf course designed by Manuel Piñero who respected the natural environment in its construction. Our residential town is also privileged to have one of the most important Satellite Tracking Stations in Europe manned by scientists, technicians, and engineers from all over the world.
I would appreciate if you could pass this message to any association who might be interested in our request. If you like further information about our association and its activities, please feel free to contact me at your convenience.
Marina Arcos
Please consider this if you wish to enhance your portfolio of twinning links, this is a town with existing links in France, Mexico and Jordan and they are actively seeking a UK link.
Alan