Only two years separate the photos of New Year’s Eve 2019, bustling and happily chaotic like any good end of the year worth its salt, from the much more decaffeinated captured this Friday, but the distance is stark. The Avenida de Maria Cristina, the place where from 2013 to 2014, the city of Barcelona invited the public to say goodbye to the year in large numbers with a fireworks show, this Saturday has been a very different place from other occasions. The photos for 2019 and 2021 are taken at practically the same time, around midnight, which allows the different atmospheres to be compared.
At the beginning of last December, a few days, before the sixth wave was unleashed, the Barcelona City Council worked on the possibility of recovering the old New Year’s Eve celebrations, trying to control measures that circumstances have forced to harden at the touch of a finger. is left over. No partying, no television broadcasting – as happened last year, the first of the pandemic, at a decentralized fireworks party in various parts of the city. But that is not why the people of Barcelona have stopped going to the surroundings of the Plaza de Espanya wanting to party to welcome 2022 despite the fact that the mask – and that some decided to do without it – and the scarce street entertainment make it easy.
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The curfew at one in the morning controlled by the Urban Guard did not help either. As a consolation, the cleaning crews had, yes, much less work to get the city ready.
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