This would be a night at the verbena that the Spanish dream of

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Who was a poet and knew how to synthesize in a few verses the density of the air that the festivals will have this afternoon, at half past seven, when the heat does not burn so much and the stalls are already open but their employees can only lie in wait and when they are heard thunderous and sound checks are disjointed and

and gangs of teenagers start hanging around like Indians in old movies.

Who could write about the smell of their perfumes and the feel of their dresses, about the sound of their conspiracies and the imminence of their duels.

August 15, day of the Virgin, festival day.

Day of doing nothing and verbena.

In

, by Jonás Trueba, the character played by Itsaso Arana had a mystical experience of doing so much during the day and going out so much at night in an Augustan Madrid, full of

.

Is that possible?

That woman's method consisted of mixing heartbreaks, flirtations and infatuations, Soleá Morente songs, red wine and slightly tormented conversations.

And it was fine that way, but let's not fool ourselves: those who reach transcendence tonight will do so through more direct paths: through liter glasses full of beer, the smell of hair gel,

and Axe, all mixed up, from the hit songs of Van Gogh's Ear... Through the

, which may be one of the stations of blessed glory.

In figures: 34.2% of Spaniards believe that the perfect verbena is enlivened by an orchestra;

21.7% demand that

be played and 26.4% fantasize about Rosalía on stage;

39.9% want bumper cars, 28.9%, a raffle... 44% beg for beer and 36.1% for patatas bravas.

34.6% want Paquito the chocolatier to close the party and 42.3% hope to leave the fair hand in hand with the same couple with whom they entered it.

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Finally, 49.8% of Spaniards trust spending August 16 in bed as a way to relieve a hangover.

The data belongs to a survey prepared by Sigma Dos for EL MUNDO, aimed at portraying the tastes of the Spanish for August 15, to identify the ideal festival.

To that end there are 16 questions and 96 possible answers and some of them are funny.

For example, question 16 says: "

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Of course, the really funny thing is to see that only 14.2% of those surveyed answer that, that late at night they think about it.

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Political biases exist: Podemos voters value Rigoberta Bandini;

those of Vox to Bertín Osborne

The results of Sigma Two also have the interest of being segmented into demographic groups.

Women and men, for example.

When asked how do you experience music at the verbena?,

Only 7% of women give the same answer.

On the contrary: 56.3 of those surveyed answered «Singing at the top of their lungs;

Jumping like there's no tomorrow."

in

is out there, right?

There is also data segmented by age groups.

Some relevant figures:

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Verbeneros over 65 years of age are the most supportive of

(54.1%) and those who least want a bouncy castle (only 3.7% of retirees are for jumps and mats).

The nice thing is that both groups, the 20-somethings and the 65-plus men, have the same pick-up time plans.

“When do you decide to go home?”

is question number 15. 30.7% of those surveyed under 29 answered: "And they gave us ten and eleven, twelve, one, two and three", which is supposed to

.

29% of respondents over 65 have the same expectations.

And even more curious is the coincidence regarding the sexual morality of grandchildren and grandparents.

Is the verbena a good place for brown beaks?

20.9% of respondents under 29 answered:

. "

20.2 of the respondents over 65 have the same opinion.

Those of us who are in the middle will be happy to listen to your advice.

And now, a literary digression and a theory: if in

the verbenera girl ended up in mysticism, in one of the stories of

, by Aloma Rodríguez (editorial Milenio), the verbenera ended up thrown to a fountain.

That text recalled the story of a town fair in Teruel at some point in the 1990s, in which the narrator, the daughter of a doctor who worked in the area of ​​and a writer who lived in Zaragoza,

And that scene also connects with

the novel by Bárbara Blasco, which was narrated by a middle-class girl from Valencia, someone who was expected to live with the refinements of the characters in

, but the one whose life had gone wrong.

And

, singing over and over again that song by Carlos Baute and Marta Sánchez,

The theory is simple: although it seems that August 15 is the stupidest day of the year, although it seems that the village festivals are an innocuous thing, there is also politics in the verbenas;

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Does anyone remember the irony with which festivals were spoken of before the 2008-2011 period?

That slightly classist approach has been replaced by

, as if the most valuable truth was in the village dance.

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For this reason, the Sigma Dos survey also includes results segmented by the voting recall of those consulted.

Some data is like memes, they seem made to confirm the ideas built on Twitter.

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At the other extreme, the percentages are reversed: VOX voters love Bertín (22.1%) and disregard Rigoberta (3.2%). Left-wing voters are also more promiscuous (16.5 % of those from UP and 10.9% of those from the PSOE are open to summer romance; only 7.07% of those from Vox attend to the same reasons) and a little more night owls... Although, in reality, the spaniards really

are those who voted for Ciudadanos.

More: PP voters are the most fond of the

dance .

15.7% of them say that their greatest interest in festivals is «

».

In the survey as a whole, only 7.9% of the respondents gave that answer.

And the bulls, what?

Well, what is it going to be:

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Asked about their favorite attraction for a day of fairs, right-wing voters are the ones who most want to go to the running of the bulls.

23.5% of Vox voters and 14.3% of PP voters choose them over alternatives such as bumper cars, the mechanical bull, the fairground shotgun or the aforementioned bouncy castle.

In the whole of the survey, only 9.5% of the Spaniards are for the work of the steers.

Who was a filmmaker and could shoot a long sequence shot tonight, already at twelve, when the atmosphere has become unreal between the music, the colored lights,

and the gravity of the intoxicated bodies crossing each other .

Tomorrow, checking the filmed material, we would realize that it is already August 16 and

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