Residents of Arcosur will have a service they have been requesting for years from next Monday, September 28: the neighborhood’s first ATM. Until now, residents had to travel to other areas of Zaragoza to carry out certain banking transactions in person.
The venue for the 2030 World Cup final remains undecided, and Madrid Mayor José Luis Martínez-Almeida has made no secret of his doubts about the decisive match being played in Spain’s capital. "I am not optimistic," he admitted on Tuesday in Zaragoza during a meeting with Mayor Natalia Chueca, warning that Morocco is making moves to try to secure a final that Madrid believes it should host.
Through two information points at the Valdespartera Market and along Mago de Oz, Zaragoza City Council aims to boost pneumatic waste collection in the Zaragoza neighborhood. The council has launched a campaign to raise public awareness of organic waste collection and promote the proper use of a system installed in several Valdespartera homes since 2007.
JEKES has closed its location on Zaragoza’s Paseo de Sagasta after around a year and a half in business. The kebab shop occupied one of the kiosks along the central boulevard, next to El Corte Inglés.
Madrid and Zaragoza want to work together on two major showcases through which both cities are looking toward the coming years: culture and sustainability. Zaragoza Mayor Natalia Chueca and Madrid Mayor José Luis Martínez-Almeida reinforced their municipalities’ cooperation on Tuesday, with a particular focus on the bicentenary of Francisco de Goya’s death and the Aragonese capital’s bid to become European Green Capital 2028.
Eight Zaragoza businesses have missed out this year on taking part in one of the Aragón Fashion Week shows. This edition’s program has a significant absence: the “Fashion Retailers” show, an event launched last year in Plaza del Pilar that turned one of the city’s most iconic spaces into a showcase for local businesses to present their collections to the public.
The course and workshop program run by Zaragoza City Council’s Equality Service has triggered a new political dispute in the Social Policies Committee. Vox has questioned why certain activities are reserved for men or women and criticized content related to equality, sexuality and gender-based violence, while Social Policies Councillor Marián Orós defended the programs and reproached councillor Armando Martínez for failing to understand their purpose.
The driver signals and approaches a space that has just become available. But before the car can pull in, a person stands in the spot and refuses to move, claiming to be "saving the spot" for another vehicle. The situation can quickly become tense and, in some cases, the pedestrian may even sit or lie on the ground to prevent the car from parking.
Stepping into DeTarros feels like entering a space where the rush seems to stay outside. Surrounded by glass jars, freshly ground coffee, spices and pulses, customers browse the shop at their leisure, refill their own containers and take only the amount they actually need. In the heart of Zaragoza's old town, this small shop has spent seven years championing a way of consuming that goes against the grain.
Tarazona’s III Soapbox Derby, scheduled for October 4, will have to wait. The Tarazona City Council announced Tuesday that the event has been "suspended and postponed until a new date" because the minimum number of teams established in the rules had not been reached.
Twenty years ago, Aragón Digital was already reporting the stories shaping current affairs in Aragon. On September 22, 2006, more than 60 young people gathered outside the Zaragoza Museum to protest the relocation of the Arts School from the city center to the Actur district.
Five years ago, Aragón Digital was already reporting the stories shaping current affairs in Aragon. On September 22, 2021, Zaragoza City Council's Board of Spokespersons agreed to begin the proceedings to award the city's distinctions, with CEOE Aragón president Ricardo Mur proposed to receive the Gold Medal.
Neighborhoods are also filling up with culture. And in Santa Isabel, this coming weekend, they will do so with guitars, punk and rap. Plaza de la Libertad will once again become an open-air stage on Saturday, September 26, for the third edition of Santa Rocks, an event born in the neighborhood that will bring together four musical acts between 6:30 and 11:00 p.m.
Zaragoza neighborhood giant-headed figure groups will once again be able to request appearances during the 2026 Pilar festivities after Monday's meeting with the City Council. The council will review the applications according to four specific criteria, a decision that has led the groups to call off the gathering they had planned for September 26 in Plaza del Pilar. The meeting, the first in which the City Council brought representatives of the different groups together, was attended by 25 members of these organizations, as well as representatives of the Municipal Comparsa.
Opposition to Microsoft's planned data center near Puerto Venecia will take to the streets of the Aragonese capital once again. The Salvemos los Pinares de Venecia platform has called a demonstration for this Sunday, September 27, to show its opposition to the project and the new roads planned around the Pinares. The protest will begin at 12:00 p.m. in Plaza de las Canteras.
The scars of the Civil War remain part of the landscape and memory of Azuara (Campo de Belchite, Zaragoza). Nearly nine decades after the bombings, evacuations and fighting that marked the town and its residents, the municipality will revisit this chapter of its history through research and archaeology this weekend.
Zaragoza's Calle Mayor is one of the streets that preserves the spirit of the Historic District. It connects Don Jaime with Coso Bajo and, beyond being a thoroughfare, has become a corner where traditional bars, new-generation vermouth bars and small, distinctive establishments coexist. Although it is often overshadowed by busy areas such as El Tubo and La Magdalena, it hides some of the city's most authentic bars.
Beneath the current Zaragoza Hostel in the historic center, an old vaulted cellar preserves an overlooked part of the city’s history at 70 Predicadores Street.
The Huerva River regeneration works will cost an additional €2.17 million due to several unforeseen issues that arose during construction. Zaragoza City Council has approved two contract amendments to address, among other matters, unstable ground discovered on Manuel Lasala Street, damage caused by a rise in the river and the discovery of archaeological remains. The second section of the works has also been given an extended deadline, although it must be completed by December 31, 2026.
Works on Valencia Avenue are already "several weeks behind schedule". Zaragoza's municipal councillor for Urban Planning, Víctor Serrano, acknowledged this on Monday during a city council committee meeting, where he admitted that the project is one of his main concerns because of its impact on mobility. "We are working with the contractor to see how these figures can be improved," he said.
