With temperatures expected to exceed 40 degrees in Zaragoza in the coming days, the city council will activate the yellow alert under its Municipal Heatwave Emergency Plan this Friday. Several measures will be introduced, including reduced admission prices at municipal swimming pools.
Zaragoza’s tram will run continuously overnight on Friday, September 4, and Saturday, September 5, for the Vive Latino 2026 festival. Service will continue throughout the night and into the following day to facilitate travel for attendees heading to the Expo site, where the festival will take place.
Integra Tecnología celebrated its 40th anniversary yesterday afternoon with a gala at Ibercaja’s Patio de la Infanta in Zaragoza, attended by institutional and business representatives, clients, partners and company professionals. The event looked back at the history of a company founded in Calatayud in 1986 as Izquierdo Informática, which now employs more than 1,000 professionals.
With temperatures expected to exceed 40 degrees in Zaragoza over the coming days, the city council will activate the yellow alert under its Municipal Heatwave Emergency Plan this Friday. Various measures will be introduced, including reduced admission prices at municipal swimming pools.
Zaragoza’s cleaning, waste collection and civic amenity site services will strike during the Pilar Festival after unions and contractor FCC failed to reach an agreement at Thursday’s meeting held at the headquarters of the Aragonese Mediation and Arbitration Service (SAMA).
Grilled meat, especially Ternasco de Aragón, is one of the most popular dishes in Aragón. In Zaragoza, numerous steakhouses across the city offer the chance to enjoy a great meal and traditional Aragonese cuisine.
Zaragoza's new Civic Ordinance has reopened in the municipal plenary a debate that had already sparked controversy during the text's drafting: the identification of people entering municipal buildings and facilities with their faces covered. The sharpest clash came between Vox and the PSOE, with the burqa at the center of a dispute pitting security and identification arguments against accusations of curtailing freedoms.
The Aragonese capital once again has a Civic and Citizen Coexistence Ordinance. Zaragoza City Council's extraordinary plenary session approved the new regulation this Thursday, with votes in favor from the People's Party, Vox and unaffiliated councillor Marisa Gaspar. The ordinance restores a specific framework for regulating conduct affecting coexistence and the use of public space, following the repeal of the previous ordinance in 2014. The text establishes a new catalogue of offenses and penalties and sets out the obligations of those who damage public property.
Zaragoza's new Civic Ordinance, approved earlier this week, divides punishable conduct into three categories based on severity and sets fines of up to €3,000. The city government aims to establish a clearer framework for penalizing everything from vandalism against street furniture to everyday behavior that harms community life or public spaces.
Etopia Kids’ technology camps have concluded a new edition, consolidating their position as the most successful in the program’s history. The initiative, promoted by Zaragoza City Council and Fundación Hiberus, attracted 603 participants and achieved occupancy of more than 85% of the 720 places available, setting a new attendance record since its launch.
Sports organizations, clubs, schools, parent associations and sports groups in Zaragoza can now apply for the municipal facilities they need for training, matches and activities during the 2026-2027 season. Zaragoza City Council is opening the second reservation period of the 'Juegas en casa' campaign from September 3 to 9. The initiative, led by the Sports Facilities Service, aims to facilitate access to the municipal network for organizations that form part of the city's sports community.
Sleeping overnight in a park or garden will remain prohibited in Zaragoza under the new Civic Ordinance, but the conduct will be reclassified under the penalties regime. The text approved Thursday by the city council of the Aragonese capital removes sleeping overnight in these spaces from the category of serious offenses and places it among minor offenses related to the indiscriminate or exclusionary use of public space.
Some bars become part of a neighborhood’s landscape and, over the years, turn into meeting points for several generations. That is the case with El Rincón del Bacalao, an establishment in Zaragoza’s Las Delicias neighborhood that has been behind the bar for more than three decades and has preserved one of its defining features since the beginning: cod.
Having a bunker beneath your home sounds like something reserved for Hollywood films, Cold War stories or luxury developments prepared for any imaginable catastrophe. Yet in central Zaragoza, residents of one building have lived for decades alongside an underground shelter built to survive war. On Paseo de la Constitución, hidden two floors below street level, the space was designed to protect lives during one of the most uncertain periods of the 20th century.
Neighborhood and environmental associations in Zaragoza’s South District oppose plans to expand the site hosting the Pilar Festival fairgrounds in Valdespartera this year. Instead, they are calling for major concerts to be moved to other venues in the city, such as “the Trade Fair, the Expo area or other locations,” and for the planned park in the neighborhood to be restored.
Zaragoza will allocate 56,000 euros to help the Venezuelan community after the severe earthquakes that struck the country last June. The measure was approved this Thursday by the extraordinary plenary session of Zaragoza City Council. Specifically, the funding will support projects by Cáritas Autonómica de Aragón and the Juan Ciudad Ongd-Aragón Foundation, which were assessed by the Regional Emergency Committee on July 23. The committee includes the city council and other administrations.
Zaragoza would be impossible to understand without its bars. Over the decades, many venues in the Aragonese capital have become true landmarks, welcoming several generations of residents day and night. Many of these establishments have been operating for more than 40 or 50 years, reflecting the consistency of their service, products and distinctive homely atmosphere.
Oliver is preparing to take the celebrations to the streets. The Zaragoza neighborhood will celebrate its main festivities from Thursday, September 10, to Sunday, September 13, with the festival tent and fairground as meeting points for four days of music, children's activities and events for all ages.
A seafood restaurant in Zaragoza is becoming a must-visit for anyone who loves a good rice dish or a proper seafood platter. More than 2,000 reviews and an average rating of 4.3 out of 5 confirm it: the food is excellent and diners come back.
Historic Casa Pedro reopens in Zaragoza this Thursday, September 3. Now called Carcas Casa Pedro, it moves to San Miguel Street, 42.
