Features 5 Almería Solar Platform 9 San Fermin Festival The Almería Solar Platform, belonging The San Fermín Festival, popularly to the Centre for Energy, Environmental known as Sanfermines, is a Festival and Technological Research (CIEMAT), of International Tourist Interest held is Europe’s largest research centre annually in Pamplona. Although its dedicated to concentrated solar origins date back several centuries, its technologies. It was inaugurated in 1981 worldwide fame is a recent phenomenon, and initially led by the International linked in part to the publicity it received Energy Agency. from Ernest Hemingway in his book The Sun Also Rises. During the festivities, which begin with the traditional rocket 7 IE Tower launch (chupinazo), the population of the Navarran capital increases ninefold, The tallest vertical university campus from 200,000 to 1,800,000 inhabitants. in Europe. This is one of the notable facts about the IE University, which has set up its student campus in the Torre Caleido in Madrid, one of the five skyscrapers that make up the city’s skyline. The IE Tower is a 181-metre, 36-storey skyscraper located on Paseo de la Castellana. Sustainability has been taken into account in all aspects of the tower’s design, from access to public transport in the surrounding area to the layout of the building, which 6 Doñana National Park optimises space and accommodates 6,000 students. Covering an area of more than 122,000 hectares, the Doñana Natural Park was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1994. More than 300 different species of birds can be 10 Dalí Theatre-Museum observed there throughout the year: it is a place of migration, breeding and The Dalí Theatre-Museum is a museum wintering for thousands of them, both entirely dedicated to the painter European and African. The park also Salvador Dalí in Figueres (Girona). With boasts more than 900 species of flowers over a million visitors a year, it is one and a rich fauna that includes freshwater of the five most visited museums in fish, amphibians, reptiles, mammals Spain and the only one in the country and, of course, birds: 127 species breed that is financed entirely from its own in the park. 8 Andalusia income. Inaugurated in 1974 in the Technology Park former Municipal Theatre, the largest The Andalusia Technology Park (also surrealist object in the world houses the known as Málaga TechPark) is a most extensive collection of the artist’s cluster of companies that contribute works and provides the ideal setting for to the country’s economic growth and learning about his artistic career. employment. The park has around 700 companies and approximately 25,000 employees, and is a hub for R&D within the Spanish business community thanks to its ability to attract talent and the quality of its infrastructure. Málaga TechPark is home to 74 international companies, and its activity accounts for 8% of employment in the province and 1.65% of Andalusia’s GDP. 8