Zaragoza to install giant screen in Principe Felipe Pavilion for Spain-England final at Euro 2024
Zaragoza City Council is already preparing the city for This Sunday we are in for another great football festival. Fans will be able to watch the Euro 2024 final on giant screens installed in the Principe Felipe Pavilion. The match between Spain and England at the Berlin Olympics.
The first thing in the morning was to activate the device to install a giant screen to broadcast the match. Initially, the option of building the Plaza del Pilar was considered, but due to the expected high temperatures, this was ruled out. So they opted for the Príncipe Felipe Pavilion, where screens were already installed to follow the Operación Triunfo final, won by Nayara from Zaragoza. It is expected that this Thursday it will be announced how it will be accessible and whether a ticket will be required.
Zaragoza Mayor Natalia Chueca celebrated the event via social media.
At night and via social networks, he invited the people of Zaragoza to enjoy the European Cup final on Sunday in the Principe Felipe Pavilion. “Get your shirts, your flags… and your throat ready! We will make our breath heard even in Berlin,” he warned them!
The Principe Felipe Pavilion will host a musical programme with a DJ on the eve of the meeting. Details on access, which will be free, will be clarified in the coming days. The city council therefore states that “all citizens will be able to experience together this historic day for Spanish sport, when the national team will fight for its fourth European Championship.” If successful, Spain will become the country to have won the tournament the most times, as it currently shares first place with Germany, with three European Championships each.
This is not the first time Zaragoza fans enjoy on giant screens during the final. In July 2010, thousands of fans in the Plaza del Pilar watched Iniesta’s goal that allowed the Spanish team to win its first World Cup in South Africa.
Zaragoza also joined the party in the summer of 2008. when, at the height of the International Exhibition, the Spain-Germany match could be seen on giant screens installed in the Expo Plaza and the Amphitheatre. Volunteers stationed at the three entrances to the site distributed 20,000 Spanish flags to those present. And La Roja won the European Cup.
Huesca to have screens at Congress Palace
As was the case in the semi-final, where about a thousand spectators will gather, in Huesca a giant screen will be installed in the Huesca Congress Palace, and entertainment clubs will take responsibility for moving the bars. In Binéfar, the city council will install a giant LED screen measuring 4 x 2 meters to follow the match. In Teruel, the city council will not install screens, but “exceptionally” lifts the ban on their installation on bar terraces.
Big night of the semi-finals
Last night, the Zaragoza woman, the Minister of Education, Vocational Training and Sports, Pilar Alegria, was in the government box. He went to Munich immediately after the end of the Council of Ministers meeting, enjoyed La Roja’s victory in the semi-final and plans to return to Madrid this Wednesday.
Worse luck was suffered by the Minister of Finance of the Government of Aragon, Roberto Bermudez de Castro, who was among fifteen people from Zaragoza who planned to travel to Munich from Prat airport and the breakdown of the plane belonging to the company Lufthansa left them without watching the game live and with tickets in hand.
Other Spanish capitals are planning to install giant screens, Barcelona City Council has confirmed, without specifying where they will be installed.