The Plaza Mayor of Salamanca in full celebrationEuropa Press
As custom dictates, the 20,000 younger individuals who packed the Plaza Mayor in Salamanca this midnight welcomed 2023 prematurely by consuming 12 jelly beans with the 12 chimes that marked the change of day. It is the University Year’s Eve, a celebration that started within the 90s and since then has been repeated yearly with a subsequent social gathering within the metropolis’s leisure venues.
Only the pandemic interrupted the social gathering that takes place on the final Thursday of faculty earlier than the Christmas holidays start and which started as a manner for college students who return to their locations of origin to spend the vacations with their households to rejoice prematurely a New Year’s Eve that they might not in any other case be capable of get pleasure from collectively.
At the occasion, presently organized by the Association of Hospitality Entrepreneurs of Salamanca, attendees have been capable of get pleasure from animation and performances with ‘djs’ previous to the arrival of midnight.
For its improvement, Salamanca has had, since early within the afternoon and constantly all through the early morning, a particular safety system through which brokers of the National Police and Local Police within the metropolis have intervened, along with the Guard Civilian within the surroundings.
Thus, breathalyzer controls have been carried out on the entrances and inside the town, along with different controls on foot to, amongst different causes, stop the consumption of alcohol on the street and to regulate the capability of the Plaza Mayor, with a prime within the agora of 20,400 individuals.
Likewise, the End of the University Year has had the reinforcement of different municipal providers equivalent to cleansing and different units which have been added such because the Salamanca Red Cross emergency service and Civil Protection.
According to these liable for the occasion, its celebration affords an financial profit for the town of about 600,000 euros, for what it means each for nightlife and for different sectors equivalent to lodges, taxis and commerce, along with selling the dissemination of the picture of Salamanca within the media.