This Black Friday, 28-N Madrid 2024, the postmodern light bulbs and the camels of November are a consequence of the sunset being so early and so that the urban landscape does not oppose the meaning of the shop windows. Christmas guides the city in one of the worst autumns that the country’s capital has experienced. It is about giving it light, as always and never, since not only prestigious designers have participated in the design of LEDs that imitate the original candles. Also schoolchildren after winning a competition.
On the last Thursday of November it is traditional that the lighting, the lighting button, is set up in a sort of proclamation of San Isidro with scarves (this Thursday it lights up, but scarves at the end ) when the city celebrates the eve of vigils. . And this with the technology enabling the celebration of Easter. To start, the Christmas tree placed at Puerta del Solthat is, Spain, made up of almost 245,000 points of light and the height of a 13-story building according to the eye of a good cubero or canonical architect. All decorated with more than 3,360 red balls measuring between 15 and 30 centimeters. But Sol is only the beginning of a radial city. The 121 neighborhoods will shine thanks to 7,100 light points, around a hundred cherry trees, 10 large illuminated fir trees and several nativity scenes in the most visible roundabouts.
Data which, if for the average citizen it has circumstantial relevance, constitutes a healthy war between municipalities. Innovate for this title of the best Christmas to which Madrid contributes this year a Victorian-style Three Kings parade. Innovate for the past. Puerta del Sol was crowded, even an hour before the event. Belén is from Madrid, “all her life”, and among the crowd, she dragged the fence a little, with the commiseration of the policeman, so that the photo was as good as possible.
Ignition has the charm of predictability. Quiquigeneral director of lighting at the Ximénez company, in Puente Genil, I still haven’t stopped (“You have no idea how nervous I can be”) when at 6:30 p.m., from his phone, the light bulbs in Barcelona must have turned on. The bear and the arbutus tree saw it, fenced in red, almost up to the ursid’s big head.
Nuria, who wears “ski” glasses, confessed that she has been coming to this Christmas aperitif and this big day in department stores for “six years”. Between 8,000 and 10,000 peoplewithout “watching the drone”, was the audience gathered at the Mariblanca while it was performed from one “walkie” to another. The delegate for Culture, Marta Rivera de la Cruz, entered hurriedly and dressed in a light coat. Meanwhile, the scene next to the giant tree was filling up.
At five minutes to seven, the national football coach, Luis de la Fuente, told ABC in the presence of Roberto Gómez that in July or December “the important thing was to celebrate something”. After a while, he hugged the mayor, who downplayed the cold. “Column” Angie Rigueiro entered the stage at five past seven to introduce the event and ask “How is Madrid today?”, in the style of the pencil sharpener duo.
And from there she got sober so that Choir of singing boys will delight with the anthem of the Valencian Community. A few tears were evident when speaking of the offerings of “glories to Spain”, which then burst into applause. They then performed juggling acts while hiding their sorrows. And Alvaro de Luna. The star of the day, De la Fuente, stood up, with no more representation on the council than the mayor. He remembered De La Fuente de Valencia and gave, among other offerings, a t-shirt with that same number, the letters of Valencia, to the first mayor. The power button has been pressed. Noiseblowers and cojetos in coordination; caught fire in balmy Madrid shortly before eight o’clock.
