Plants more resistant to lack of water, prioritizing native species, more dried flowers for outdoor installations and limiting irrigation to a single day of the nine that the Temps de Flors floral exhibition lasts, which will be held in Girona between the 11th and May 19, are some of the measures that the City Council has adopted to address the drought.
In addition, the setups will use state-of-the-art sponges that allow high humidity levels to be maintained during the days that the sample lasts. With all these measures, the City Council plans to considerably reduce the use of water used in other editions, marked by normality.
As explained this morning by the councilor for Economic Promotion, Gemma Geis, the 16 cubic meters of water used in previous editions of Temps de Flors, the equivalent of about one hundred bathtubs, will be significantly reduced.
The idea is that the plants are watered only on the first day, the day of assembly. For this, tanks will be used that have been storing rainwater throughout these months, which after that first day will be removed from public roads.
"We have looked for all kinds of innovative solutions to be self-sufficient and barely waste water," explained Geis this morning, who assured that the possibility of not holding this floral exhibition, which is visited by more than 365,000 people, never crossed his mind. which leaves an impact of 10.5 million euros on the territory.
In this 69th edition there will be 138 floral projects that will decorate 109 spaces in the city, most concentrated in the Barri Vell. Even so, this year thirteen more neighborhoods are included in the sample.
Among the novelties, the Gothic patio of Casa Solterra, the Camino de la Reina Ermessenda, the winding streets of the Rambla, Calle Argenteria, the Casino de Girona garden and the Casa de les Arts de Mas Ramada stand out.
Compared to other editions, spaces such as Casa Cúndaro, Torre Gironella, the Palau de Caramany and the church of Sant Martí Sacosta are reopened. These new points will make it possible to expand and reduce the number of projects around the Cathedral and distribute them in the area of Plaza del Vi and Rambla de la Llibertat.
New this year, the exhibition will open every day at 9:30 a.m. - half an hour before its usual time - and will close at 9 p.m. On Saturdays the 11th and 18th, the visit to the private patios and gardens will last until midnight.
