He Vigo City Hall will light It isput down your Christmas lightswhich will light up 420 city streets this year with 11.5 million LEDs. It will be from 8:00 p.m. that, once again, the mayor, Abel Knightwill once again be the star of the lighting ceremony which will mark the start of the Christmas season in the Olympic city. He the event will take place at Puerta del Sol and, as the councilor said, it will be “more sober” and “less festive” than on other occasions, as a sign of respect for the people affected by DANA in the Spanish Levant.
Upon power-up, Christmas lights in Vigo will be on every day from 6:00 p.m. and until midnight, earlier than other years due to energy savings. On weekends, the lights will turn off at 2 a.m., as Caballero reports. In addition, on the most important dates, such as Christmas Eve, Christmas, New Year’s Eve, New Year’s Eve or Three Kings’ Eve and its eve, the lighting will stay on longer.
“Christmas is starting in Vigo and I want the city to enjoy it. Everyone wants to be Vigo“, he said. For all these reasons, the Vigo hotel sector expects “very good” occupancy levels during the almost two months that Christmas will last in the city, after the “extraordinary” figures of last year.
The president of the Hotel Association of Vigo, Iván Sánchez, highlighted that the day of lighting is a “very special” date for the sector, since it is the “starting shot” of a “high” tourist season, with a lot of “hustle and bustle”. “.
Christmas in Vigo
THE the city is already preparing to start its Christmaswhich will begin this Saturday at 8:00 p.m. in an event under the big tree of Puerta del Sol, which this year will exceed the 44 meters in height reached during the last festivities.
“It’s going to reach Mars. We’re going to beat Elon Musk in the race to see who gets to Mars first: Vigo’s Christmas tree will get there,” Caballero joked. In addition, in this square there will be a “large Christmas forest”, with more trees about eight meters high.
Some 420 streets in Vigo will be lit this year with 11.5 million LED lights, with some 1,300 arches and 2,500 trees illuminated.
In addition, on this occasion, for the first time, Elduayen will benefit from special lighting, after its humanization, as well as Marqués de Valladares, which will have innovative lighting that reduces light pollution by almost 93% and consumption energy by 60%.
