With the coronavirus crisis subsiding, with the exception of some outbreaks, the Madrid City Council will pay its first tribute to the victims and essential services affected by the new normal pandemic. A show with drones equipped with multicolored LED lamps in the vicinity of Madrid Río, as EL MUNDO has learned, is the option chosen by the Culture Area.

In the corporation they avoid specifying the exact point where this event will take place to "prevent crowds from taking place during the take-off of the drones," said municipal sources consulted by this newspaper. But it will be a point on the banks of the Manzanares River where a show will take place that will begin on Friday night at 10:45 p.m. and will consist of 40 drones running a choreography for eight minutes.

That Madrid Río has been the space chosen for this tribute is due to the fact that it is a point that allows many people to appreciate the choreography from their homes , explain in the team led by Andrea Levy, who has reached an agreement with the company UMILES Entertainment to develop this initiative in one of the cities most affected by the pandemic.

In the eight minutes that the choreography will last, the drones will be accompanied by music and will represent the flags of the main countries affected by the coronavirus crisis. In addition, an "emotional" memory will be displayed, according to municipal sources, both to the hundreds of thousands of deaths in recent months and to the workers who have maintained their activity in the midst of the coronavirus crisis as essential services: health workers, supermarket employees , farmers, ranchers, transporters ...

The intention of the City Council of the capital is that this tribute be extended also to all citizens and especially to the inhabitants of the city of Madrid for "complying with rigor each measure decreed during the confinement and the State of alarm". "The objective of the choreography is to thank from the heart, awaken emotions and send a message of hope", they affirm in the Culture Area of ​​the capital.

The choice of drones equipped with multi-colored LED lights is because it is a "noise-free, explosion-free and residue-free" show in contrast to the usual fireworks fireworks used in popular celebrations. In Cibeles, they point out that this new model of aerial choreography is precisely "the evolution" of the launch of fireworks .

But this is not the only tribute that the Madrid City Council has paid to the victims of the coronavirus in the city. On May 15, coinciding with the celebration of the Day of San Isidro, patron of the city, the mayor, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, and the deputy mayor, Begoña Villacís, already inaugurated a cauldron at the gates of the Palacio de Cibeles that with its flame would remind those who died during the pandemic that in the Community of Madrid they exceed 8,000 and in Spain 28,000.

During that day, the municipal representatives already warned that this monument, at the confluence of Gran Vía and Calle Alcalá, would not be the only one that the city would host in honor of the victims. In fact, the regional government chaired by Isabel Díaz Ayuso also installed a souvenir sculpture inside the Casa de Correos , in Puerta del Sol.

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