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The Christmas lights in the center and surroundings of Funchal, Madeira, will be turned on on December 1 and will color the nights until January 11, 2021, keeping the tradition alive, despite the covid-19 pandemic.
“There is no tourism, but the lighting will have a very positive psychological effect on people,” Lusa Humberto Silva, from LuxStar, responsible for most of the municipality’s decorative lighting project, told the agency.
And he reinforced: “People are living this moment [de crise pandémica] in addition to its normal state, so this court can alleviate that nervousness a bit, because there is light, there is color, there is something new.
This year, the project is in charge of two companies, LuxStar and Teixeira e Couto, winners of the public competitions launched by the Regional Secretariat for Tourism and Culture, which budgeted a budget of 3 million euros for Christmas, New Year’s lighting. and Carnival in Madeira until 2022.
“Only in the amphitheater we will reach 130 kilometers of running games and, in the center of the city, we have around 180 thousand lamps,” said Humberto Silva, highlighting, on the other hand, the assembly of large structures, such as a tree. 30 meters high and 14 tons of iron, in Praça do Povo, and the flag of the autonomous region, 100 meters long by 70 meters high, suspended on the bridge of the João Gomes river, more than 100 meters from the bed .
The city center was divided into four lots, distributed by the two companies, with Humberto Silva highlighting the light tunnel at the pier, a sphere on Avenida Sá Carneiro (marginal access to the port) and four artificial trees scattered around Funchal: two are 10 meters high and two are 15 meters.
“It is not only about doing a job to receive money, it also has something artistic in addition to work and sweat,” he declared, highlighting that LuxStar is responsible for the part considered as the “essence” of Christmas lighting in Madeira, being also responsible for projects in Porto Santo, Câmara de Lobos and Ponta do Sol.
The line lighting of the Funchal amphitheater, the decoration of the trees in the city streets, gardens and roundabouts, as well as the lighting of the contours, balconies and lintels of public and private buildings and the three streams that run through the center are some of the features that mark the holiday season and are a huge draw for residents and visitors.
“I think that Madeiran Christmas is famous for the difference and the essence of what it presents and represents,” said Humberto Silva, highlighting that, although it is important to keep up with technological advances, “there are things that cannot even be changed” .
The assembly of decorative lighting in the municipality of Funchal began on November 11 and should be complete by Tuesday, December 1, the date on which the switch will be activated, which marks the start of the Festival in Madeira.
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