There is no planned End of the year’s party like those of many years ago. Perhaps they remember, for example, those perimeter concentrations in the plaza de Catalunya, with volunteers at the entrances delivering plastic cups to prevent the celebration from ending with glass bottles flying through the air. None of that, but the citizens who wish to do so will be summoned to enjoy a welcome show to 2022 in Reina Maria Cristina, the unofficial place for the most colorful ‘shows’ in the city since the consistory decided to charge itself, with the airport through, the Party in Heaven, that magnetic aircraft carousel over the shoreline which was the icing on the cake Thank you.
The Deputy Mayor for Security, Albert Batlle, He got involved a bit this Friday during the press conference to present the holiday parties device. “It is not planned at all,” he said, when asked by a journalist about the possibility of the city saying goodbye to the year with a big party. The veteran councilor was referring to the refusal to host a clubbing rampage in the streets. Municipal sources have later specified that it is recovers the call of the years prior to the pandemic in Maria Cristina, with a show that can be followed on public television. The entrance of 2021 also had fireworks from different parts of the city, but with the public in their homes and with a curfew at one o’clock in the morning it was not enough for big revelries.
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On the sidelines of the farewell of the year, Batlle, accompanied by the Councilor for Mobility, Laia Bonet, has given details on the operation of public transport and on the police device during Christmas. On December 24, as usual, the metro It will stop operating at 11pm (in the case of buses, the last departure will be at 10pm). On the 25th, on the other hand, it will be operational between 5 a.m. and midnight, and on New Years Eve will work uninterruptedly to guarantee a safe return home to those who have decided to say goodbye to 2021 at a more or less massive private party.
January 1 falls on a Saturday, so that night, the subway will not stop running either. In this way, the subway will be operational for 72 hours straight, from 12 a.m. on December 31 to midnight on January 2. Refering to presence of the Urban Guard in the streets of Barcelona during the festivities, Batlle has advanced that 15% more agents will be deployed and that, above all, the commercial areas and the city center will be controlled.
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About him show in Maria Cristina, a spokesman for the city council explains that the details will be announced later in a monographic press conference. But in any case, go ahead and emphasize that in no case is it a call to extend the night on public roads. In fact, on the municipal website of the show it is announced that the end of the event is scheduled at 0.15 am.
The call next to the Plaza Espanya was established in times of Xavier Trias. It happened in the jump from 2013 to 2014 with the intention of emulating cities like Sydney or New York, known for its spectacular farewells of the year in the street with thousands of citizens, locals and foreigners, congregated. That first event, which was left to the Fura dels Baus and had in front of Tourism of Barcelona, had a cost of 400.00 euros. About 70,000 people were stunned by the imposing presence of the ‘show’ of the Ésser del Mil·leni.
Reference-www.elperiodico.com