“of vigo and vigo, came the moment that so many people are waiting,” announced the afternoon of Saturday, the socialist mayor of Vigo, Abel Caballero, before the crowd took to shout the countdown. Ten, nine, eight… one, zero! Then the ruler flipped the button. And a metal cone of 31 metres in height was transformed by the work and grace of the electric company in the course Christmas tree largest in the planet. At the same time, it illuminated more than 300 streets, 325 natural trees and 30 clones smaller of the copy of record. And the public is cheering admired while trying to grasp, barely, as much apotheosis of light with the mobile. Nine million leds that will cost the public purse around 800,000 euros will wear party Vigo for a month and a half. And at its opening the mayor (and former minister of Felipe Gonzalez) was again, as so often, the essence of the show: “with the lights, with the music, very welcome everybody here!”, he cried out between the session of fireworks and cannon shots of confetti, in a speech trilingual in which mixed euphoric galician, Spanish and English.
“The music and light will live in Vigo in the tree in our Christmas time”. The language of the british, and the background music (“we are going to listen, just ‘Happy Christmas’, John Lennon”, announced) came to the story of another emergence, in the second week of September, which immediately became viral on social networks. It was the day that Abel Knight announced the ecstasy of christmas and live the city: “prepare”, warned the rulers of several capitals of the world. “We know the mayors of London, Tokyo, New York, the mayor of Paris and the mayor of Berlin that we are going to be a no go. Well… since I am not quoting Madrid and Barcelona because these are we Supertotobet are there little kids.” Their statements gave the return to the country and alarmed the environmental groups long before the company contracted to install the power lines to hang the first wreath led.
The “Christmas top of Vigo”, promised then the mayor of the largest city in Galicia and president of the FEMP, it would be “a no go”, with 25 trees of light, 13-lit facades and a “label of 108 square meters” in the town Hall. This Saturday, at the same time that the tree was gargantuan as a sequoya of the Door of the Sun (a structure higher than the surrounding buildings and allows access to its interior), the magic button of the mayor going on also a great snowman or a ball 12 meters. This Sunday, in another point of the city, as advanced by Knight, on “a gift box, giant”, and selfies, it will multiply.
“you Are the best in the world!”, exclaimed this Saturday the mayor to the public that clogged all the streets that converge in the Puerta del Sol to attend the show, which ended with a dance of thousands of colored lights, synchronized with the music of Lennon. Had installed seven giant screens so that no one would lose detail of the event. In his speech, the Gentleman pronounced the name of the city close to 40 times: “I invite you to come to Vigo, to enjoy, to live, to be happy.” And announced that he was going to make Christmas a “fiesta grande de Vigo”.