The Ciudad Real Madrid (Real Madrid City) is the name given to Real Madrid's training complex, located outside Madrid in Valdebebas near Barajas airport. Also hosting the club's youth academy, known conceptually as La Fabrica, the facility replaced the old Ciudad Deportiva (Spanish: Sports City), which was in use until 2003.
The sale of Ciudad Deportiva, under the auspices of Real Madrid president Florentino Perez, led to Real earning approximately €480 million. The complex has been nicknamed, and is known to the players, trainers and club staff as 'Valdebebas' (val-de-bay-bahs), and is named after the district of the city where the complex is located. Inaugurated in 2005, the training centre consists of academy offices, equipment rooms, audio-visuals rooms, a strength and rehab centre, and medical (which consist of examination rooms, treatment rooms, additional rehab facilities and equipment, and a hydrotherapy center that includes hot and cool pools, a cold plunge, and a long but narrow resistance wave pool) and training facilities, as well as 12 and one third fields - three full size synthetic turf fields and four full size natural grass field for the youth, and for the first team, one third full size synthetic turf field and three full size natural grass fields.