All 120 places for the first guided tour of the New Romareda construction site have sold out. The event, scheduled for September 24 as part of the third edition of Open House Zaragoza, has sparked considerable interest among Real Zaragoza fans, who will have the chance to visit the future stadium and see first-hand how work is progressing as the venue's final appearance becomes increasingly clear.
Dropping children off at the school entrance and continuing on without having to look for parking is the aim of Kiss and Go zones, which Zaragoza City Council continues to introduce around schools to organize arrivals and departures and prevent cars from building up nearby.
Zaragoza City Council has once again denounced that the city and Aragón are being left out of the Spanish Government’s housing plans. Urban Planning chief Víctor Serrano has highlighted one of the pending projects in the Aragonese capital: the 64 protected homes announced for the Torrero neighborhood, an initiative that months later has still made no progress.
The area around Doctor Azúa School in La Romareda will change from this week until October 30. Zaragoza City Council will launch a pilot scheme altering traffic, bus stops and parking on several nearby streets to make access to schools safer.
Zaragoza’s Municipal Nursery Schools have begun the 2026-2027 school year with 939 children aged 4 to 36 months across 77 classrooms at the 13 centers in the city’s municipal network. The two specialized support classrooms for children requiring more individualized care have also been retained.
Access to housing has become one of the main problems for Zaragoza residents, and the municipal PSOE has again highlighted a situation it says is worsening. Socialist councillor Ros Cihuelo warned that housing prices in Zaragoza have reached €2,886 per square metre, their highest level since 2011, while demand for rental rooms has soared 96% in just one year.
Pedro III el Grande Street, near Doctor Azúa School, will become pedestrian-only in the coming weeks as part of a pilot scheme to improve road safety around schools. Zaragoza City Council will begin marking the changes this Wednesday, September 9, with the new layout operational later this week.
Zaragoza’s urban bus routes 35, 42 and 53 will temporarily change their routes due to roadworks. The changes will take effect this Wednesday, September 9, from 9:00 p.m. and will remain in place while the work continues.
After taking to the streets last year to demonstrate how much temperatures can vary between a vegetation-free square and a tree-lined area, groups in Aragón are once again mobilizing against cities’ lack of adaptation to climate change. The Alliance for the Climate Emergency in Aragón is joining this year’s Statewide Ecomapping initiative, ‘A Tree Is Missing Here!’, which aims to locate and count urban spaces in need of more trees. The event will take place on October 3 and 4 and seeks to turn public participation into an assessment of the condition of trees in cities.
Aragon’s villages conceal curiosities spanning all kinds of contexts. From cultural to socio-historical aspects, these possibilities make each municipality unique. However, some curiosities go beyond the most typical examples.
Caspe is adding a new industrial project linked to renewable energy. ABEI Energy will invest nearly €20 million in a biomethane plant expected to create around 20 direct jobs and another 35 indirect jobs in the municipality. The Government of Aragon has declared the project an Investment of Regional Interest, allowing its administrative processing to be expedited.
Zaragoza’s José Antonio Labordeta Park will gain a new sports layout by renovating a futsal court and building another sports court near the Nature Classroom. The project will convert the existing futsal court northwest of the building, between it and José Bueno Gimeno Street, into a basketball court.
Zaragoza is taking a moment to look back at how travel through its streets has changed. The photo exhibition "Everything Changes So Nothing Stops," organized by Zaragoza City Council and Avanza, reviews more than 140 years of public transport in the city, from the first horse-drawn trams in 1885 to today’s electric buses. The exhibition can be visited at the Gran Vía exhibition space until September 27.
The New Romareda stadium is now entering the final phase of construction, but not without setbacks. Zaragoza Mayor Natalia Chueca acknowledged Monday that the works experienced some issues over the summer involving affected services, which ultimately caused delays to the project.
Scrapping fines entirely in Zaragoza's Low-Emission Zone could put public transport subsidies at risk and lead to bus fares rising by up to 40%, Mayor Natalia Chueca has warned amid Vox's demands for future agreements.
Natalia Chueca begins the new political year with the 2027 budget as one of her main challenges and the May municipal elections already on the horizon. On Monday, the mayor expressed confidence that Vox will maintain the support that has allowed the Partido Popular government to pass the city’s budgets over the past seven years, and called on the party, now led in Zaragoza by Eva Torres, to show “the same attitude and the same responsibility” that, in her view, it has demonstrated since 2019.
Zaragoza City Council will fully resume political activity this Wednesday after the summer with its first government meeting, where it will approve an investment of nearly €4 million to improve the municipal football pitch network. The plan includes replacing the turf at ten facilities and building two new pitches in El Rabal and Torre Ramona.
The 26th class of Zaragoza Local Police began its journey toward the city's streets on Monday. The 47 candidates who passed the competitive selection process were welcomed at La Paz-Torrero Police Headquarters before starting nearly nine months of theoretical and practical training. If they complete this final stage successfully, they will receive their credentials in May and officially become officers. The class has an average age of 29, and 17 of its members are women, just over 36%—the highest proportion reached so far in a class.
Vintage fashion gains a new space in Zaragoza’s Historic Center this Monday. G Gardens Vintage opened its new store on September 7 on Méndez Núñez Street, bringing much of the city’s second-hand fashion and vintage culture offering into the center.
Parks and green spaces, sports and leisure facilities, and tram expansion are Zaragoza residents’ top demands for the city’s future. This is according to the Municipal Barometer for the second half of 2026, based on 2,267 responses. Some 10.9% of respondents identify the expansion or improvement of parks and green spaces as their priority project, followed by sports and leisure facilities at 8.6%, and tram line expansion at 6%.
