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Barcelona's Christmas lights will be turned on November 26 on Passeig de Gràcia, continuing until January 6 with extended hours.
Barcelona's Christmas lights will be turned on November 26 on Passeig de Gràcia, continuing until January 6 with extended hours.
Barcelona's Christmas lights will be turned on November 26 with an event on Passeig de Gràcia. The lighting will remain until January 6 and will be financed 65% by the tourist tax.
The central event for the Christmas lighting in Barcelona will take place on November 26 at 18:30 in Passeig de Gràcia, specifically in the section between Rosselló street and Avenida Diagonal. According to the city council, the stage will face the sea and the public can position themselves on the roadway or on the sides of the promenade.
The show will begin at 18:00 and will last half an hour, leading up to the lighting moment. The organisation presents it as a scenic and audiovisual production designed for all ages, with a nod to illusion, innocence, and Christmas tradition. Although the main event will focus on Passeig de Gràcia, the ten districts of the city will also celebrate their own events.
The lights will remain on from November 26 to January 6. From Sunday to Thursday, the hours will be from 17:30 to 01:00, while on Fridays and Saturdays it will extend until 02:00. On special dates, such as December 24, 25, and 31, and January 5, the lighting will operate from 17:30 to 02:00.
This year, the City Council continues its commitment to a distinctive lighting design, combining traditional motifs, designer creations, and new lighting proposals. Via Laietana, Plaça de Catalunya, Aragó, Gran Via, and Passeig de Sant Joan featured designer lights last year, and this edition adds two new locations: Rambla Prim and Passeig Maragall.
The council is also bringing back the Galet, the large luminous figure designed by Ramon Bigas, which will be installed in twelve markets across the city, in Plaça del Rey and on Rambla de Catalunya, at the height of Provença street. For residents, this means that the lighting will reach neighbourhoods that did not have this type of installation last year.
The municipal government led by Jaume Collboni plans to allocate around 4.6 million euros to the Christmas lighting programme. This is the first time that 65% of the project is financed by the tourist tax, a change that directly affects the budget for this festive expenditure.
Plaça de Catalunya will be the exception. The City Council confirmed last Friday that it will not install the usual Christmas lights in the square, which has been occupied since late September by a housing camp. According to municipal sources, "we no longer have time to set up what was planned," in case the camp is dismantled in November.
"We have all the scenarios to have the maximum possibilities"
This was expressed by the Deputy Mayor for Economic Promotion, Raquel Gil, at a press conference held on Monday. Gil assured that Plaça de Catalunya will not be left in darkness and that, if the planned installation cannot be set up, another type of lighting will be placed, depending on the time available to prepare it. The only deadline the council is working with is that Christmas ends.
Source: Barcelona Press
