The April 2025 Fair It is already illuminated and is not any edition. Seville returns to the traditional format, with the lighting on Monday, the one that voted last April more than 55,000 Sevillians. After eight editions celebrating from Saturday to Saturday, the stage is new, which raises a series of unknowns and challenges.
The first one revolves around the public. The 2024 is remembered as the edition of the records. More than three million people attended. He Real He never welcomed so many people.
However, in the consultation held shortly after the fireworks, he won the return to the traditional format. The doubt is whether the fair will repeat the influx of 2024 with one day less.
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From the Seville City Council They understand that the influx of public will be the same. In fact, they indicate that the differential element is that May 1 falls in the days of the fair and last year it was not so.
Thus, they consider that “the influx will not differ in excess, as recognized in statements for The Spanish From Seville the Delegate of Mayor Fiestas, Manuel Alés.
New public distribution?
In turn, from the City Council they understand that the new model will not be accompanied by the collapses in the transport that were lived in 2024. It is so, they explain, because in the previous model, when starting with the Saturday of the lighting and on Sunday, the public concentrated in the same days.
With the return to the traditional format, they consider that the arrival will be more “Escalonada and Natural”. Upside down that with the previous one, there will be more people at the end and less at the beginning, since a full weekend is again.
The forecast is that at the beginning, the Seville Fair They are mostly filled with booth partners and that in the end, when the former usually leave the Real, they occupy their hole the people of the farthest neighborhoods and outside the capital.
It is the municipal estimate, but we will have to wait for fireworks to assess the operation of the New formatwhich also has detractors.
New public distribution?
In turn, from the City Council they understand that the new model will not be accompanied by the collapses in the transport that were lived in 2024. It is so, they explain, because in the previous model, when starting with the Saturday of the lighting and on Sunday, the public concentrated in the same days.
One of the novelties is that a Tussam’s bus line will connect directly Seville this with the fair In the most influx hours. Precisely, in the Este-Alcosa-Torreblanca district, it was mostly voted in favor of the long format. It is also where there was more participation (14,633 people) and 9,291 opted to keep the lighting on Saturday.
Likewise, it will also try to avoid the collapse of the taxi. For the first time there will be a third stop at Ribs. It is expected that the lines disperse and the risk of incidents is lower. For this, there will also be private security.
He Metroonce again, it will endure part of the public that comes from outside Seville. It will reinforce your service 125 percent with simple and double trains. Last year was the scene of great collapses and will work uninterruptedly. The passing of the days will demonstrate whether the staggered arrival also implies a better distribution of the flows in the suburban.
More changes for 2026
Be that as it may, the debate is served. The format change will be the topic of conversation throughout the fair, but the variation chapter It is not closed at a party that must address new challenges.
The City Council is immersed in a process that plans to be completed with a New Fair Ordinance. “It has been left behind many things,” acknowledges the delegate of Major Fiestas. Among other things, the horsepower schedule will be delayed to adapt it to the morning cast and waste collection.
A new standard is also expected so that municipal services can inspect the booths and avoid fraud fraud Black rental. It is a practice that clashes with the more than 1,000 families on waiting list to obtain a hole in the Real.
The extension
It is in this context where the following challenge will be addressed, that of the widenic. The mayor of Seville, José Luis Sanz, has already announced that in 2026 the fair will have 250 more booths. It will be done by retracting the street of hell and winning a couple of streets.
The project was intended to be released in 2025, but the budget delay until August prevented it. Now, there are no such problems. This is expected to partially mitigate the Historical problem of waiting lists.
Although many families will follow, there is no other possible option, because according to the mayor, there is no space with the necessary characteristics to house the Feria.
Security
That of 2025 also aspires to repeat another of the successes of 2024. It was considered by the City Council as “The safest in history”.
The lighting until 5 in the morningvideo surveillance with cameras and drones and the countryman’s judicial police formed a cocktail that considerably reduced incidents. This year these elements are maintained with 4,000 agents from all bodies by monitoring the real and surrounding areas.
Above all, for many debates in the air, from now on six days of delight for Sevillians. It will be they who issue a sentence with the passing of the days on a April Fair that every year he takes small steps forward in his evolution, but that he always retains his essence as a party of the senses.
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