Accessible A Coruña/ Tourist guide/ Accessible Coruña A Coruña, a welcoming and hospitable city, directly overlooking the sea and open to travellers and 3 An Atlantic City an enterprising spirit, is also a more and more accessible city. We are an Atlantic people, we like sharing, receiving, getting to know others and displaying our cultural, inherited, landscape and gastronomical treasures. And we like diversity, plurality and equality of opportunities to enjoy life, travelling and people we meet along the way. A Coruña has a lot to offer to the traveller and a lot to discover even for those who live here. Our aim and wish is for this offer to be universal. In this guide we will show you our tourist resources and the opportunities they provide for people with functional diversity. This information is very simple and complete, drawn up with the greatest rigour and addressed to everyone: whether you come to visit us or you live in A Coruña and you need information on accessible ideas to get to know your city better and enjoy its offer in entertainment. From accommodation, transport and car parks to museums, historical buildings, gardens, squares, parks and beaches and urban routes, including cards evaluating elements such as the presence of architectural barriers and the level of accessibility to each resource. For this purpose Grumico - the Grupo de Personas con Discapacidad de A Coruña (Association of Disabled People of A Coruña) collaborated with us. Their exceptional analysis work allowed us to address accessibility in a realistic and useful way, so that you make the most of your stay with us. Welcome to A Coruña: a welcoming, inclusive and accessible city. METHODOLOGY/ LEGEND/ By following symbols and colours, users will be able to evaluate accessibility given their own specific needs: Accessible Accessible with some difficulty or with another person’s help 4 Not accessible or non-existent 5 In drawing up this guide, GRUMICO - the Grupo de Personas In order to make these con Discapacidad de A Coruña (Association of Disabled visits, we used technical People of A Coruña) – collaborated with us. GRUMICO is a accessibility datasheets that non-profit association that fights for the rights and interests determine the minimum of people with physical disabilities, while providing different requirements they have services adapted to the needs of their members. to meet in order to be GRUMICO/ considered as accessible Their main aim is to work to improve the quality of life of according to the regulations people with physical disabilities and their environment, in force. After the fieldwork, A non-profit defending their rights and interests and promoting their reports were drawn up for association that personal autonomy. all the accommodation and fights for the rights tourist resources visited, From the departments of Accessibility (consisting of an mainly evaluating the and interests of occupational therapist and an expert in tourism) and Social presence or absence of people with physical Work, Grumico collaborated in gathering information architectural barriers. disabilities. for the content of this guide, which selects and gives detailed information on accessible tourist resources and It should be pointed out that accommodation for people with functional diversity, and not all the establishments Accessible ramp CONTACT DETAILS/ more specifically, for people with reduced mobility (PRM). included in this guide Adapted toilet meet 100% of the universal Rafael Alberti, 10 bajo This guide does not evaluate the accessibility of buildings design criteria. However, 15008 A Coruña Adapted sink subjectively, but rather describes the specific features of they meet the minimum Phone no. (+34) 981 135 151 each one of them. criteria that guarantee that Adapted shower/bath www.grumico.com people with functional In order to write it, an analysis and diagnosis on the diversity can access and Adapted lift accessibility of the tourist resources and accommodation enjoy the services provided in the city was carried out. In the first place, a telephone independently or helped Adapted parking space survey was completed to locate accommodation in A by a third party, according Adapted to hearing disability Coruña with at least one room reserved for PRM. Once to their needs. At the same and/or hearing loop identified, Grumico’s technical team visited each one of time, the importance of the establishments and carried out an on-site accessibility these establishments and Adapted to visual disability diagnosis. The same process was used to include other resources from a tourist Adapted bus resources in the guide according to their importance from a point of view was taken tourist point of view. into account. Adapted taxi Adapted van/microbus Restaurant/dining hall Cafeteria/breakfast room Public car park Personal vehicle 01/ 02/ 03/ 04/ 05/ 06/ 07/ 08/ 09/ Introduction How to get to How to move Accommodation Accessible Culture and Exhibition centre Adapted public Important A Coruña around the city tourist routes entertainment Congress centre toilets information 01/01 02/01 03/01 04/01 05/01 06/01 07/0 1 (page 60) 09/01 Accessible By plane Adapted public Hotels Historical Centre Museums EXPOCoruña Tourist A Coruña (page 8) transport (page 14) (page 30) House museums (page 58) information (page 3) (page 11) Foundations offices 02/02 04/02 05/02 (page 36) 07/0 2 (page 62) 01/02 Train 03/02 Hostels Seaside Palexco Grumico Ship Public car parks (page 28) promenade I 06/02 (page 59) 09/02 (page 4) (page 9) Aveida de La Marina Performance Servicios Spaces reserved Tower of Hercules venues Sanitarios 02/03 for people with (page 32) (page 46) (page. 63) Personal vehicle reduced mobility Guided tour Theatres and Bus on public roads (page 33) cinemas 09/03 (pages 12-13) (page 50) Important (page 10) 05/03 telephone Seaside 06/03 numbers promenade II Beaches (page 63) Tower of Hercules (page 54) Monte de 09/04 San Pedro 06/04 City maps (page 34) Other (page 64) (page 56) ALVEDRO TRAIN / / AIRPORT Toilet/ Height of seat: 42 cm. Clearance STATION space from the right 60 cm and from the front >1.20 m. Two folding handrails, identical Distance from the city centre: 8 km (70 cm from the ground, 78 cm long). Distance Avda. Ferrocarril, s/n Rutis-Vilaboa between bars is 64 cm. 15007 A Coruña 15174 Culleredo (A Coruña) Tel.: (+34) 902 320 320 02/ Tels.: (+34) 902 404 704 · Sink/ Height of the top border: 82 cm, www.renfe.com How to get to (+34) 913 21 10 00 lower border: 68 cm. Front clearance space A Coruña www.aena.es >=80 cm wide and 1.20 m from the ground. Depth of the space under the sink: 33 cm. Non-adapted lever tap. Height of the mirror’s lower border: 1 m, soap holder 0.90 m, button hair dryer 1.30 m. Push button cistern 1.05 from the ground. 8 Common area/ Setting/ the access street is flat. 9 Parking/ Toll car park. 3 floors, with 16 CRUISE Setting / Access street is flat. spaces for people with reduced mobility TERMINAL/ on each one, (3 m wide and 5 m long). Clearance Access/ There are three entrances, area to the space >1.20 m. 2 accessible. The main entrance (Avda. Del Access/ Access is at ground level. Ferrocarril) has a ramp >1.50 m wide and a path The entrance door to the building is Access to planes/ Service for people of 1.15 m with a gentle slope. The entrance door Muelle de Trasatlánticos, s/n >=80 cm wide and is automatic. with functional diversity is available to the building is >=80 cm wide and is automatic. 15002 A Coruña (Atendo). It is advisable in order to facilitate The side entrance (Ronda de Outeiro) has a ramp Tel.: (+34) 981 976 821 Ticket office and inside communication access to the plane. >1.50 m wide with a gentle slope. www.puertocoruna.com path/ The desk is 1.15 m high with no clearance space. Inside the area, the circulation Boarding gates area/ Ticket office and inside communication path among furniture is >=1.20 m, with no path/ Desk height: 1.05 m with no clearance narrowing or slope. Security control/ At ground level on the space. Customer service help desk is between ground floor, with a horizontal path >=1.20 m. 0.80 and 0.90 m high. Inside the building, the Lifts/ 3 lifts in the common area, 2 connecting The inside communication path is >=1.20 m with circulation path among furniture is >=1.20 m, with with car park and 1 with the top floor. no narrowing or slope. no narrowing or slope. Ticket vending machine is Setting/ Access street is flat. The ones connecting with the car park are >1.20 m high. identical and have an automatic door >=80 Lifts/ 2 lifts, one next to security cm wide.Width 1.75, depth 3.50 m. Height of control and the other one next to the Adapted toilet/ Ground floor. Unisex. Access/ The building has one entrance. the handrail is 0.90 m. Button box inside and baggage claim area. The automatic door is 80 cm You need to ask for the key at the customer Access via a ramp, >1.50 m wide, a 60 cm outside are between 0.90 and 1.20 m from the wide. Inside width 0.94 cm, depth 1.35 m. Handrail service help desk or at the cafeteria. The cubicle path (with gentle slope). The entrance door to the ground. The lift connecting to the top floor has height 94 cm. Button boxes inside and outside has an out-swing door that leaves a space 80 cm building is automatic, >=80 cm wide.