The Sea of ​​Music, organized by the city, began closing its twentieth edition on Saturday, the 26th, with very good taste.
And it figures this week and a half of activities have exceeded the expectations of the organization, as more than 40,000 spectators who enjoyed this year's Festival.
As successful critics rated the event that has had the greatest media coverage of his twenty years.
Attendees had a wide cultural, music, literature and art, with over 60% of the free activities.
The festival records and exceeded last year by 30% in the event of payment, nearly ten thousand people, and expanded its visitors free concerts, more than twenty thousand.
The historic center of Cartagena on Wednesday concentrated at the party 20 years with seven free concerts in different parts of the city to more than 14,000 people.
This year the main sponsor of the festival, Repsol, made ​​a big bet on this day that the Sea of Music hosted concerts Goran Bregovic, Bongo Botrako or Marinah singer Ojos de Brujo, among others.
The festival sold out in all the concerts that were held in the Cathedral and hung the sign no bills in Calle 13 concert, Omara Portuondo and Amaral. Festival The only surprise was the average entry that had the concert of British Ray Davies, leader of The Kinks.
Concerts in the Cathedral had a hundred percent occupancy.
The Auditorio Parque Torres had 75% of capacity.
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The Girl Mar that this huge year programming with more workshops and concerts brought together more than four thousand children. Festival, if the budget allows, consider expanding both workshops offered (in this edition places were sold out the first day) and the concerts were held in the afternoon in the Plaza San Francisco and the Auditorio El Batel.
The Sea Film met each day to more than 300 people in the Nuevo Teatro Circo. Letters gathered about 700 people and exposures of the Sea of Art have received over five thousand. The exhibits will remain open until August 31 except Per Barclay facility located in the Casino of Cartagena which closed on Sunday and has been visited by about three thousand people.
The festival media presence has increased over the previous year.
If last year, according to the analysis made by the company Kantar Media, the presence that had the Sea of ​​Music in the national media had an economic value that exceeded two million euros, this year certainly will increase this figure.
The analysis takes Kantar Media Festival is delivered in mid-August.
Will be informed at that time of presence that has had this year's festival.
There have been many forms of domestic and international media these days have reported the Sea of ​​Music.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Cartagena