It is the sixtieth anniversary of the good snowfall of 1962 within the Catalan capitalThe Port of Barcelona has held the Nadal Cup, the oldest crossing in Spain that takes place each December 25″Its incentive is the Christmas celebration, the assembly with associates and the very fact of competing nobly”
The seashore of Barcelona has dawned this Christmas day with folks sunbathing and a few even bathing dressed, profiting from the great temperature of this winter day.
With midday information, the temperature within the metropolis is a minimal of 12 levels and a most of 21, and the water temperature is eighteen levels.
Tourists have been seen bathing carrying Santa hats, although the water “was chilly however bearable”. Others have determined to not get moist, however to benefit from the solar stretched out on the sand whereas having breakfast.
Precisely, greater than 400 folks have participated this morning within the Nadal Cup, the oldest crossing in Spain, which has carried out its 113th version this Saturday the place custom, competitors and enjoyable for the Christmas holidays come collectively each December 25 within the waters from the Port of Barcelona.
This yr, the Cup breaks a file for ladies’s participation, having registered 129 swimmers within the totally different classes, and the biggest variety of folks within the well-liked sequence. Thus, a lot of the public takes dip to cowl the 200 meters with departure and arrival on the Portal de la Pau, in entrance of the monument to Christopher Columbus. And a few of them do it dressed as Santa Claus.
In the case of Ramón, at 91 years outdated, he has turned this journey right into a routine. In the identical approach as Eduard, who competed for the primary time in 1962, the yr of the good snowfall in Barcelona. In reality, this version marks the sixtieth anniversary of that historic milestone in Barcelona.
“My first time within the Nadal Cup was after I was 20 years outdated and it was snowing. The water was hotter than the environment. That day I made a decision to leap in with 13 different colleagues. We swam it after which I advised myself that if I might that yr I might all of the others. And so I’ve continued for 59 years,” he defined earlier than the beginning of the take a look at.
The competitors consists of 5 sequence, with a most of 150 individuals in every of them. The final one is open to all those that resolve to take part in a extra playful approach, in disguise or with companions from different classes.
“Their incentive is celebrating Christmas, assembly associates and competing nobly with none financial stimulus, simply purely sporting. To train younger folks that sport is life”, Eduard has indicated.