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The afternoon parade and La Repanocha, which has established itself as an alternative leisure for young people, became the events that more people gathered.
The City Council launched a device integrated by a thousand people in cleaning, security and protection tasks that has allowed the city to recover its usual image from early in the morning and that the day of yesterday passed within a normal channels.
Pacheco has highlighted 'the participation of Murcia and visitors because their collaboration has been essential so that we could all enjoy a magnificent holiday.'
Nearly 600,000 people enjoyed the Day of the Bando de la Huerta yesterday, according to local police estimates, in a day that, as usual, stands out for its massive participation of Murcia and visitors.
The first act celebrated, the Mass in honor of the Fuensanta, gathered more than 4,000 people in Plaza Belluga.
In addition, La Repanocha, which was held in the FICA fairgrounds, has become in just three years a very successful leisure alternative for young people, who began filling the area after 11 am. He evacuated at 8:00 p.m.
More than 20,000 tickets were registered in the area and 11,000 young people agreed to attend.
For the little ones, the City Council recreated 'The garden of the giants', a huge children's area in the Silk Garden, the Salitre and El Rocío, where 2,500 people, including 600 children, enjoyed an area familiar with more than 30 attractions distributed in 55,000 square meters.
The Gardens of the Constitution and the Malecón and the surroundings of Alfonso X were other areas of great concentration of people (8,000, 5,000 and 4,000 people, respectively, at times of greatest assistance).
In the squares of Santa Catalina and Las Flores, 3,000 people were gathered around 2:00 pm.
The longest parade
The Councilor for Economic Promotion, Culture and European Programs, Jesús Pacheco, congratulated the Federation of Peñas Huertanas for the success of the Bando parade, which was the longest in history, and highlighted the participation of Murcia and visitors because his collaboration has been essential so that we could all enjoy a festive day safely and within normal channels, despite the massive concentration of people.
Equally Pacheco has highlighted the work of more than a thousand workers of the different services of the City of Murcia who actively collaborated during this day, as well as the health and safety services.
Of them, 279 cleaning workers, 424 local police and 200 people involved in the maintenance of green areas and gardens.
Containers in gardens
In this sense, the cleaning device was reinforced with 184 bins, with a selective distribution through the most central and busy streets of the city and 120 additional containers through the gardens with the intention of making it easier for the citizen to deposit the waste.
To make it possible for the city to present its usual appearance this morning, 94 workers joined the ordinary device.
Also, the mechanical means used during this day were 12 street sweepers, 10 sidewalk sweepers, 7 Cuba trucks, 3 builders, 13 collection vehicles, plus 11 scrubbers and water-cleaning vehicles.
Special attention has required the service for the subsequent cleaning of the Reparocha, with a team composed of 20 operators plus 8 mechanical equipment and the selective collection of the waste deposited in the containers ready for later recycling.
Regarding security devices, the entire staff of Local Police was active in the day yesterday.
During the morning, with 160 officers, a figure that increased to 240 policemen during the afternoon parade.
The Local Police restricted the traffic in the city center to heavy vehicles of more than 3,500 kilos and the security in the streets was reinforced with the parking of vehicles and the installation of fixed elements in certain access points and specific points of the city.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Murcia
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