Centros Abiertos Especiales de Navidad
- Ages
- 3-21
- Dates
- Dec 23 - Jan 8
- Price
- €4.90/day
City-Run camps, 1 of 14: Centros Abiertos Especiales de Navidad



One of the few Christmas options in Madrid built for kids in special education, run by the city in its own special-education schools.
A city-run holiday program for kids and young people enrolled in special education, at a special-education school or unit, who live in the city of Madrid. Days mix learning, play and social activities aimed at building independence, held in public special-education schools, with lunch and adapted bus routes. Kids with special needs in mainstream schools apply through MADRIDCAMP instead.
Apply once per family on the city's PLACT site between Oct 27 (9:00am) and Nov 3 (11:59pm), listing all siblings in the same application. Places go by a draw on Nov 5, and you hear by email on Nov 13. You pay between Nov 13 and 17 to keep the place. A second round runs Nov 20 for any free places, with payment Nov 20 to 24. No lists of admitted children or waitlists are published. Leftover places can be bought directly Nov 26 to Dec 3.
It runs 8 days: Dec 23, 28, 29, 30 and Jan 4, 5, 7, 8, at three special-education schools. There are 150 places in total. 45 go to district social services at no charge and 105 are open to any family. Each center has two adapted bus routes with about five stops each: out between 9 and 10am, back between 4 and 5pm.