Overview
- Barcelona’s Avenida María Cristina celebration gathered about 115,000 people for a pyrotechnics‑music‑drone show produced by Groupe F, with the Magic Fountain reactivated for the spectacle.
- Madrid restored the Sol ritual with a controlled capacity of roughly 15,000, using staggered entry, police filters, drones and limited Metro access to keep the countdown orderly.
- Emergency balances in Madrid logged 1,237 police incidents, around 200 SAMUR interventions and 73 firefighter operations, including two notable fires, with no stab‑wound victims reported and 33,450 kilos of post‑event waste collected.
- In Catalonia, Mossos d’Esquadra reported 117 arrests for offenses including theft and gender‑based violence as the 112 service handled 6,171 calls linked to 4,358 incidents, alongside about a hundred fire‑service deployments and a fatal crash in Malgrat de Mar.
- Daytime traditions were widely attended, with Vigo’s San Silvestre drawing nearly 6,000 registered runners (about 10,000 participants per the mayor) and Cáceres tallying 5,280, while local controls and cleanups followed reports of litter, overcapacity and underage issues in cities such as A Coruña, Valladolid and Pontevedra.