Farewell to Natura Encesa. The Barcelona City Council and the organizing company Let’s Go have decided “by mutual agreement” to cancel the light show that was to be held, as it had been doing for some years, in the upper area of the city.
The show, which was to be installed in the gardens of Torre Girona, in the district of Les Corts, is canceled after protests from neighborhood groups and environmentalists, who opposed the event since last year.
The light show was born with controversy. Neighbors and environmentalists have criticized from the beginning its negative impact on the biodiversity of the gardens and the potential risks to the ecosystem due to the luminous elements and the extensive wiring. Last year, a hundred people protested on the day of its inauguration, and shortly afterwards a protected tree fell over the fences of the enclosure.
In fact, the show already had to move from the Jardins de Pedralbes, its original location, to the Jardins de Torre Girona (Les Corts), where it was to be held this year. But here the show has also clashed with the refusal of the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC) to host the event again.
Although the City Council has not clarified whether the show will be relocated elsewhere, the organizing company has removed the Barcelona event from its website, noting that the conditions to carry it out “are not optimal”.