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Their Majesties the Three Wise Men arrive this afternoon in Madrid loaded with peace, gifts and sweets, tons of sweets, to distribute among the thousands of children.

La Cabalgata recovers in 2023 the normality and splendor lost

due to the Covid pandemic.

In 2021, Melchor, Gaspar and Baltasar had to settle for an act at the Conde Duque cultural center,

and which was broadcast on television.

Last year, the intense rain and

also spoiled the Parade, which was held with capacity restrictions, without sweets and with online ticket reservations, which sold out in a matter of minutes.

This year their Majesties the Three Wise Men return in style under the motto of peace, accompanied by a procession of more than a thousand people distributed in 11 floats, including their 222 pages, as well as 300 balloons,

and three mechanical elephants

The tour starts at 6:30 p.m. in the Plaza de San Juan de la Cruz in Nuevos Ministerios and will go through the Paseo de la Castellana, the Plaza del Doctor Marañón, the Glorieta de Emilio Castelar, the Plaza de Colón and the Paseo de Recoletos to finish

around 8:45 p.m.

There, Their Majesties and the Mayor of Madrid, José Luis Martínez-Almeida, will read their Christmas speeches, which will be rounded off by a fireworks display with hundreds of fireworks under the musical theme

, by Händel, as the soundtrack.

The actor Beltrán Iraburu

, after the success of his presence in the Parade last year.

10,500 seats in the stands

The assistants will be able to place themselves in the 8,000 places distributed along the route and the other 2,500 installed in the Plaza de Cibeles, since today it will not be necessary to make a prior reservation.

The Community will

throughout the afternoon, for which the frequency of passage will be increased to 68% on lines 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 10.

All this will be supervised by a total of

, among the 400 municipal police officers, in addition to the 300 Samur-Civil Protection operatives, the staff of the Urgent Cleaning Service (Selur), the mobility agents and the volunteers who will participate. on the security device.

The objective of this 2023 is that the Parade is something more than a mere Christmas parade to become a

, according to the words of the person in charge of the Area of ​​Culture, Tourism and Sports of Madrid, Andrea Levy.

"We want the Parade to provide Madrid with its own identity and give it international visibility that reflects the current moment that the city is experiencing as a cultural hotbed," Levy assured GRAN MADRID.

Andrea Levy with the pages. EFE

For this reason, this year the Kings will be accompanied by

: The Panthers Marching Band, made up of 90 young students from the University of Northern Iowa, and the Marching Show Band, with 146 musicians from the High School of Pittsburgh, in California, who will accompany the Three Wise Men with their wind and percussion instruments.

The parade will also

, which is the guest country at Christmas in Madrid.

For this reason, the Florentine

[flag bearers in Spanish] of the Compagnia Bandierai degli Uffizi will march in the procession, whose banner launching into the air is a tradition in this European country.

I work against the clock

The floats from RTVE, El Corte Inglés, the Teatro Real, Amazon,

and Disney Junior-Movistar+ will also be present, the latter two made by the company Estudio Arte Herrador.

In this company, the employees have worked against the clock this week to get the floats ready.

«Now we are already adjusting the details in order to make everything fit.

In the Disney Junior float we have had to use 400 meters of strip of Led lights to make Spidey's spider webs.

We have to do

because it also has a three and a half meter wide screen”, explains Álvaro Rossignoli, CEO of Estudio Arte Herrador.

The same happens in Publidinámica, another of the leading companies in the sector, where the operators have given the last touches to the caravans these days.

In its warehouse in the Ventorro del Cano industrial estate, in Alcorcón, floats have been made for the parades in

, a town where balls and stuffed animals will be distributed for the little ones .

«We have been working day and night for two weeks to leave the perfect floats.

We are increasingly being asked for more services such as streamer and confetti machines.

You can see that this year there is a lot of joy and that the city councils

in the streets, "concludes Óscar Corrochano, director of Publidinámica.

Publidinámica employees give the final touches to the floats.A.

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