The participatory process Improving Vitoria-Gasteiz Improving continues to bear fruit. The area around Aldaia, in the Zabalgana neighbourhood, has just launched some new sports courts equipped with an elliptical-shaped skating rink that surrounds them and a large interior multipurpose space for the practice of different disciplines such as football, basketball, volleyball, badminton, ball or climbing.
The City Council, through the Citizen Participation area, has made an investment of almost 400,000 euros to materialize this open-air space, which is located between Pablo Picasso, Clara Campoamor, avenue of the United Nations and Antoni Tapies.
The mayor, Gorka Urtaran, accompanied by the person in charge of Participation, Borja Rodríguez, and the Councilor for Mobility and Public Space, Raimundo Ruiz de Escudero, visited the new space this Friday, “an example of what we want for Vitoria-Gasteiz and its neighbourhoods”, in the words of the first mayor.
Municipal technical staff and those responsible for the neighborhood neighborhood association, Zabalgana Batuz, have also participated in this end-of-work visit. His spokesperson, Alain Larreina, has been “delighted” by the premiere of the new infrastructure and has advanced that on July 18, within the framework of the Zabalgana festivities, An activity will be carried out on the slopes as a meeting and popular premiere.
non-standard dimensions
The elliptical track has 300 meters long and a width of four, It is made with polished asphalt pavement to facilitate sliding and separates the sports fields and the surroundings.
On the other hand, one of the most noteworthy characteristics of sports infrastructures is that the tracks have been designed with non-standard dimensions with the aim of promoting an inclusive sport in such a way that, for example, the goals or the baskets are not facing each other.
