Getafe is a municipality of the south of Madrid, which has about 166.000 inhabitants.

It is a very extensive municipality, with big infrastructures and very well communicated, being a route of step to the capital from different points of the Spanish geography, which has served Getafe to enrich it more.

This city that in his origins was living of agriculture has turned into an industrial, dynamical and modern city in which the aeronautical industry is a main one.

Key of this transformation has been the building of the University Carlos III, one modern infrastructures, industrial land and a few excellent routes of communication.

The Getafe of today possesses the wealth that gives the mixture of cultures that form it. Emblematic monuments settled here for the use and enjoyment of all the people of Getafe. Today they share space with great quantity of services and sanitary,cultural, religious, sports, social, educational facilities, as well as wide residential zones, green zones and of leisure that they do not stop growing to achieve the most plural aim of a city for all citizens.

Getafe Iniciativas is the Local Development Agency at Getafeâ??s City Council. Its aim is to act on the local economy, activating it and promoting investment and employment creation, acting as a catalyst and coordinating public and private efforts, encouraging the integrated development of the Municipality and contributing, in a word, to an increase in Getafeâ??s quality of life.