Madrid and London, cities that offer sightseeing tours designed for people with disabilities.

Madrid is the city that offers more affordable prices for organized tours, is the unique that arranges visits and tours in Japanese, and is also the only place where there are views designed for people with physical, visual, auditory and / or intellectual.


This emerges from a comparative study undertaken by the Tourism Council of Madrid on how to organize such activities in nine cities across Europe and America (Madrid, Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, London, Paris, Rome, Seville and New York).


According to this study, Madrid and London are the unique cities of the analyzed that offer tours for people with physical disabilities, but only in Madrid there are also guided tours for people with physical, visual, auditory and / or intellectual disabilities.


The study shows that Madrid, near Barcelona, is the unique city among the cities analysed that has a program of visits organized by a public entity. Moreover, Madrid is the unique city where visits are conducted in Japanese.


Moreover, Madrid, Amsterdam and London are cities that offer tours specifically for children, being the Spanish capital the only one giving a theatrical tour for children, as well as storytelling and concerts focused to children.



Link to the Original post in Spanish:
http://solidaridaddigital.discapnet.es/SolidaridadDigital/Noticias/Nacional/DetalleNoticia.aspx?id=8090

Adapted Balloon trips only over La Garrotxa (Catalunya)

If mobility is an issue, Vol de Coloms is waiting for you with wide-open doors.

Disability-adapted basket. With door for wheelchair easy access. A caféteria service with WC in the very take-off area will be available shortly. Tracking vehicle also fully adapted for the disabled.

It is strictly necessary for every wheelchair user to have an extra passenger accompanying them all along the flight

Should you wish to spend the night prior to the flight locally, a specially adapted package is also available

http://www.voldecoloms.cat

The Metro of Madrid, the most accessible

The Madrid is a world reference in accessibility for people with mobility problems. This follows from the results that place Metro de Madrid at the top ranking for number of escalators and elevators installed on your network.


Furthermore, the Committee of Organizations of Disabled Representatives of the Community of Madrid (CERMI) gave the Consorcio Regional de Transportes de Madrid Prodis 2009 X Prize Anniversary in the category of entities, reports elEconomista.es.


In total, 1.624 stretches of escalators, well above the second in this ranking, the Moscow metro, which account with 598 tranches or Paris, with 504. Furthermore, it is undertaking a renovation project in which up to 2011 stairs 281 will change with more secure and sustainable.


Metro de Madrid is also number one in elevators installed, with 488 in the whole network, it occupies second place New York with 196 and is followed by London, with 150 lifts. This first post will be consolidated with the ten new lifts from Plaza de Castilla, the five Sainz de Baranda, both of Argüelles and as many Pacific.


Additionally, as part of the Universal Access Plan, which began in 2005, and who do Metro de Madrid and Mintra, proceed to install up to 30,000 linear feet of pavement podotáctil (the yellow button) to signal the edges of platforms to blind.


This will be completed to mark the 126 network stations that have not had this distinctive pavement, with an investment of over EUR 2,600,000. Installation is expected to end in the first quarter of this year.


Currently, the Madrid Metro network has 130 stations with elements of mobility aids for people with disabilities and up to 144 stations are equipped with elevators.


Further evidence of the commitment of the Community of Madrid for this case is in the new exchangers, designed so that there is no barrier to any citizen, to have the disability you have.




Source: http://solidaridaddigital.discapnet.es



You can check here accomodation and others things to do and see in Madrid:
http://www.barrera-cero.com/index.php?option=com_jreviews&Itemid=139&lang=en

Adapted Rental Vehicles in Madrid - ACS

ASC is a car rental company that has adapted vehicles.
Situated in Madrid and Toledo

http://www.ascalquiler.es
+34 902 47 47 50 / +34 902 47 47 48

Avila in the League of Historical Accessible Cities.

Avila City Council will be integrated into the League of Historical Cities Accessible, created by the European Consortium of Foundations on Human Rights and Disability, representing Spain by the ONCE Foundation.


This action aims to improve accessibility and promote historic cities through concrete pilot actions, serve as a center for exchanging knowledge and best practices and develop pilot projects that can serve as inspiration for other foundations, cities and other interested parties.


These performances will be leaded by a group of foundations, closely related to a historic city. The initial working group will be constitued by the Banca del Monte di Lucca, Italy; Fondation de France, France; Calouste Gulbenkian, Portugal, and the Spanish ONCE Foundation, which has chosen the city of Avila to fulfill the conditions of historical and advanced work and experience in accessibility.


There are other foundations that were interested in the project and are assessing their integration, including Vakfi Sabanci, Turkey; Realdania Foundation, Denmark, and The Atlantic Philanthropies, who is American but has offices and work in Ireland.


In the first meeting established the first activities to be performed and which are intended to improve and promote the accessibility of cities in specific points (monuments, streets), to exchange information, knowledge and good practices and disseminate the various projects League pilot.





http://www.ciudadespatrimonio.org/DesktopDefault.aspx?tabID=8243

http://www.barrera-cero.com/index.php?option=com_jreviews&Itemid=247&lang=es

Al-Andalus: Alhambra Palace in Granada

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxMi5gh7wrc

Al-Andalus (Arabic: الأندلس) was the Arabic name given to those parts of the Iberian Peninsula governed by Muslims, at various times in the period between 711 and 1492.


You can check the post about "Alhambra accessible" here: http://tourismforallinspain.blogspot.com/2010/02/alhambra-de-granada-new-accessible.html

Accessible CALPE (Alicante)

Calpe, Alicante coast population of the Mediterranean, bathed by the blue water, sun, sand ...
It smells like salt. Invites visitors to enter into magical places through different routes: boardwalks, archaeological sites, hiking, and spectacular panoramic views across the Natural Park of Penon de Ifach.


Calpe provides 2 beaches accessible during the summer. These beaches have an area with services to facilitate access to the bathroom to Disabled people and are equipped with amphibious chair and crutch, bathrooms, showers and changing rooms. The Town has also a wide promenade adapted and accessible.



The Rock of Ifach, a large rock of 332 meters in 1987 declared a Natural Park. Called by the Phoenicians "Rock of the North" to distinguish it from Gibraltar, southern rock, because they were the most spectacular promontories they encountered in their travels around the Spanish Mediterranean coast. It has a reserve of over 300 plant species and a rich fauna of seabirds that nest in its recesses.








HAYA TRAVEL and adaptive architecture in collaboration with Aspaym CV organize trips to Calpe.

Reservations and more information:
Viajes Haya Travel Avda Cataluña, 20-1º Valencia
Telfs. 963 277 880 / 638 78 28 11 / 622 43 54 54
Fax 963 277 886 e-mail: turismoaccesible@hayatravel.com