“Whoever posted this doesn’t live here” | Relief

It’s already autumn in Madrid. In the park closest to the Santiago Bernabeu, a family plays with their children among the sand and leaves. One of the children starts to run. “Bellingham, Bellingham,” his father tells him with a sweet smile. The white team’s stadium is visible ahead, surrounded by a calm that contrasts with the situation the club experiences in its surroundings.

Real Madrid’s new plans for a new Santiago Bernabeu stadium, the epicenter of football and now all forms of entertainment, have changed the daily lives of the stadium’s residents.. Organized together with the “Local Association of People Victims of the Bernabeu”, they are fighting against concerts being held in the white stadium.

In one of the buildings closest to the noise, on Rafael Salgado and Castellana streets, On the windows of the fourth, seventh and ninth floors, three identical signs read: “NO CONCERTS.” But this Tuesday something new appeared, on the penultimate floor of the same fifteen-story building: “YES BERNABEU.”

The banner attracted the attention of area residents throughout the day. And it also brought smiles to Real Madrid fans on Twitter.tired of the news that comes out every week about the problems that the new stadium is causing, first with works and now with concerts, paralyzed until at least April.

But who put up the banner in support of the Bernabeu? What did your neighbors think of your house? What are your neighborhood neighbors saying? The poster’s author was nowhere to be seen, but traces of several responses remained. “The man who hung the banner does not live here. He hardly ever passes by this floor. He is a popular businessman who strives to become even more popular. But I cannot tell you his name.”

– a man who knows perfectly well everything that happens in this building on Rafael Salgado Street tells Relevo.

The building is ancient and imposing on the outside, luxurious on the inside, and houses several law offices as well as several medical offices. “Only very rich people live here. Some politicians, many businessmen. This is not Vallecas or Carabanchel Alto.”says another neighbor.

“This guy with the banner will want to be funny. And apartment prices will rise. But those of us who live on these streets every day don’t have a very good time, not so much because of the noise, which is also true, but because of the smells.

people who come to concerts and start smoking joints in children’s parks, those who come and start pissing everywhere,” they explain next to Volapié on the corner of Rafael Salgado.

Meanwhile, Real Madrid continues to work to improve the soundproofing of the stadium, although the majority of residents are against them. And some kind of ally.