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One of the main novelties of this year is that the light will also shine at the foot of the street, as the City Council has installed luminous decorations in the commercial areas and greater traffic of the neighborhood of Vistalegre, El Carmen and the downtown area.
José Ballesta advanced that "the light will reach the Segura in a way never seen to date, with a spectacle of water, light and effects on the river"
The mayor of Murcia, José Ballesta, and the councilman of Employment, Tourism and Culture, Jesús Pacheco, inaugurated this afternoon the lighting of the streets of the city, unpublished light motifs made up of a total of 2,600,000 ultra light bulbs low consumption.
The event took place in the Plaza Martínez Tornel, next to Gran Vía, which has been decked out with original luminous motifs of Murcian design, made with engraved methacrylates whose figures are illuminated with LED technology, resulting in innovative Christmas motifs in white tones and blue.
Also unpublished is the lighting of Correos street, with three-dimensional stars that blink, and the streets of Platería and Trapería, with motifs like umbrellas, bells and stars.
In total, Christmas lights travel more than 100 kilometers of streets in the urban center, distributed in more than 400 arches.
One of the main novelties of this year is that the light will also shine at the foot of the street, since the City Hall has installed luminous adornments such as pots and pines in the commercial zones and of greater pedestrian traffic of the neighborhood of Vistalegre, the Carmen and the zone center.
The lighting will be on until 8 January, from 18 to 23 hours, except the special days 24 and 31 December and 5 January, which will light up until 3 in the morning.
To these motives in the streets of the urban area is added the great Christmas tree of the Circular Square, decorated with 80 aerial cannons and 50,000 Christmas decorations, stars and points of light of ultra low consumption LED technology, minimizing energy expenditure and filling Of life one of the most traveled environments of the city.
Besides the urban helmet, the different Municipal Boards are responsible for the Christmas lighting in the different districts of Murcia, so the Christmas spirit will flood the municipality in full.
The river will host a unique show of light, water and effects
During the event, the mayor said that the program of Christmas activities of the City of Murcia for this year, which will be officially presented next Monday, includes "surprises that will feature the Segura River."
"The light of the water at Christmas is the axis through which all the Christmas programming runs," said José Ballesta, who advanced that "the light will reach the Segura in a way never seen to date, with a show of water, light And effects on the river, in the area of ​​Los Molinos, open to all Murcia and about which we will report in more detail next Monday.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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