We look forward to welcoming you to Madrid for the 54th annual meeting of the International Continence Society in October 2024.
The Scientific Committee is putting together a programme that will cover all aspects of continence and urinary function; of great interest to urologists, urogynaecologists, pure and applied scientists, nurses, physiotherapists, and those with an interest in bowel dysfunction. We look forward to revealing the state of the art programme featuring lectures and discussions given by distinguished speakers from all over the world! Please subscribe for updates at www.ics.org/subscribe.
Madrid is a city so full of life and culture that it’s hard to do justice to it in a few paragraphs. Artistically the city holds its own against any in Europe, with the of the best art museums on the continent where renaissance masterworks and seminal 20th-century pieces are waiting to captivate you.1
If you’d like to get a sense of the city, a walk along the Gran Vía (pictured above) is a superb place to start. It’s Madrid’s entertainment, shopping and cultural nerve centre, a buzzing avenue often full of life until dawn.1
Madrid is the capital and most populous city of Spain. The city has almost 3.4 million inhabitants and a metropolitan area population of approximately 6.7 million. It is the second-largest city in the European Union (EU), and its monocentric metropolitan area is the second-largest in the EU. The municipality covers a 604.3 km2 (233.3 sq mi) geographical area.2
Lying in the centre of the Iberian peninsula on the southern Meseta Central, 60 km south of the Guadarrama mountain range and straddling the Jarama and Manzanares river sub-drainage basins, in the wider Tagus River catchment area. Madrid has a Mediterranean climate with continental influences in the western half of the city transitioning to a semi-arid climate in the eastern half.2
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