Albacete

Interior Lodares Passage, historical modernist gallery of the early twentieth century

Albacete is a city and municipality of 173,000 people (2018) in Castile-La Mancha. Albacete has a reputation as producer of clasp knives.

Understand

Climate

Winters are cool while summers are hot. Winters and summers are usually dry. Because of the continental nature of the climate there is a large temperature variation during the year. Precipitation is low and mainly concentrated in spring and autumn, usually falling in the form of rain, although there is occasional snow.

Get in

Halfway between Madrid and the Mediterranean coast, it enjoys connections by motorway, railway (including AVE), and air (Albacete Airport).

• 1 Albacete Airport (ABC  ^IATA) (6 km (3.7 mi) south of the city). Charter flights arrive here but no scheduled airlines. Used for public general and military aviation.  
• Albacete-Los Llanos railway station, Federico García Lorca street. (updated Oct 2020)

Get around

The city has 10 lines of urban buses (7 of them daily).

Albacete has more than 42 km (26 miles) of bike paths on urban roads in the city, adding to the more than 120 km (75 miles) of greenways, groomed trails, paths or bike lanes.

See

• 1 Cathedral of San Juan de Albacete. It was built in 1515. (updated Dec 2018)
• 2 Passage of Lodares. (updated Dec 2018)
• 3 Albacete Provincial Museum. A museum of archeology and fine art. (updated Dec 2018)
• 4 Plaza de Toros de Albacete (La Chata). Bullring. (updated Dec 2018)

Do

• Football: Albacete Balompié play soccer in Segunda División, the second tier. Their home ground Estadio Carlos Belmonte (capacity 17,500) is near the university, 2 km south of town centre.
• 1 Albacete Fair. 7–17 September (updated Dec 2018)

Sleep

• 1 Gran Hotel Albacete, Calle Marqués de Molins, 1, ☏ +34 967 19 33 33. (updated Dec 2018)