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The installation of the lights and the Christmas decoration will be completely finished so that on Wednesday, December 5, the official lighting will be on, which will take place at 6:00 p.m. in the Town Hall Square.
Precisely, from that location you can see the novelty of this year, the lighting of the Palace Hall, which will be decorated especially with 39,132 led lights.
The ignition will be enlivened with the Big Band of the Conservatory of Music of Cartagena.
The councils of Celebrations and Infrastructures take days installing all the lights and ornaments that will illuminate the streets of Cartagena, as much of the urban helmet as of districts, county councils and coastal zones.
Being the investment of this year in the Christmas lighting of 180,656.84 euros.
The novelty of this Christmas will be that the Palace Hall will be illuminated with 39,132 led lights that will shine from the cornice of the building and the balconies of all the windows, as well as the main balcony of the three facades, in addition to the dome of the clock.
The mayor of Cartagena, Ana Belén, along with the other councilors of the Government Team and members of the Municipal Corporation will attend the Plaza del Ayuntamiento to witness the lighting of the headquarters of the Cartagena Consistory.
At the same time the ignition will be carried out in the rest of the streets of the municipality.
This year the streets of the center have more than 200 luminous ornaments between arcs, stars, or cones.
Among these ornaments is a gift box 5 meters and a half high, by 4 base, which will shine in the Plaza del Ayuntamiento.
It has also been installed, a year, a wicker crib with platform in the pond of the Plaza Juan XXIII.
For its part, in the Plaza de España you can see a cone of lights of 7 meters, while the area of ​​the Ensanche also with a hundred of these luminous ornaments.
The districts, councils and districts of Cartagena will also have their ornamental reasons to celebrate Christmas.
The City of Cartagena has installed another hundred of these decorations between posters of 'Merry Christmas' and other Christmas reasons.
Another area that has this year's Christmas lighting is the coast.
In Cabo de Palos, Isla Plana, La Azohía, La Manga, Los Nietos, Los Urrutias, and Playa Honda, a total of 30 ornaments will shine.
THE BETHLEHEM
The municipal Bethlehem that is installed in the Plaza de San Francisco will continue to include winks to the Cartagena as part of their typical anachronisms.
This year the replica of the Church of Santa María is released, with its four bells that will even ring.
The replica of the cupola of the Minor Basilica of Charity, the typical Cartagena mill, the peacocks on Herod's palace (as there are in Torres Park), and the scale reproduction of the church of San Antón, next to which you can also see cooking the typical Cartagena octopus, make up the rest of anachronisms that could already be seen in the birth of other years.
The Bethlehem, whose assembly began in November, is located in the Plaza de San Francisco under a transparent tent of 30 x 10 meters to avoid the deterioration of the more than 700 figures All of them make up the recreation of the 14 mysteries of the birth of Jesus.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena
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