"This is the vile club."
While the tour guide recounts what the executions that took place in the Plaza Mayor in the 17th and 18th centuries were like, Fermín
reluctantly placed the chairs on his terrace this morning
, hours before having to dismantle it.
The NATO Summit scared away its customers and no one was sitting at the tables.
"This is very quiet.
With so much crush that Madrid is blocked,
tourists are not even going to show up
.
In the end, they don't just screw you today but tomorrow and the day after.
There is a kind of psychosis with so much information and people do not want to mess around, ”complains the waiter at the Torre del Oro.
The pilgrimage to the Prado Museum also
ended with a jug of cold water
.
An employee received tourists at the door with an intemperate "is closed" or "this is closed."
"Coming to Madrid and missing the Prado is a sin
," lamented Luis Enrique, a Peruvian traveler who was visiting the city with his wife Mariela and their two children, devastated because the next day they were taking the flight to Barcelona.
"Oh no!
We come from far away to see El Prado”, complains Ingrid, another tourist from the United States.
"Today's show is this," criticized another visitor who showed her children the closed doors of the museum and
blamed Joe Biden for the situation.
Confusion reigned among tourists who did not know why the closure was due and
if the rest of the museums were open
.
“The Reina Sofía is also closed,” the employee informed them.
“And what can we visit?” asked the tourist.
"Go to the Retiro, which is nearby," the Prado worker patiently replied, tired of repeating the same litany.
The situation will be repeated tomorrow because
the Prado will continue to be closed
, since President Pedro Sánchez is offering a dinner at the Los Jerónimos cloister for those attending the summit.
The Reina Sofía will also remain closed until 5:00 p.m., as there
will be a family photo of Doña Letizia and her companions next to Picasso's Guernica
, considered a symbol of peace, and a meal at the museum's NuBel restaurant, offered by Paradores .
Some were clueless and had no idea
that there was an international summit
.
This is the case of Salvador and Diego, two Venezuelan tourists who have just landed in Madrid and assure that they have not noticed anything exceptional in the city: "We came from the airport right now and everything is calm."
Everyone noted the low turnout, including
Fat Spiderman,
who is taking photos with a group of Italians.
«I see few tourists and many plainclothes policemen.
It is an event that involves a lot of security and a lot of danger because we are at war », he comments.
And he adds next:
«Please stop war!
Superheroes don't understand politics but this is crazy."
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