Seville (EFE).- Seville is already prepared for its April Fair, which will kick off at midnight this Saturday with the lighting of more than 200,000 light bulbs that will light up the more than a thousand booths and the 15 streets of the Real, a venue that celebrates the 50th anniversary of its transfer to the Los Remedios neighborhood.
This year it will be the residents and merchants of this neighborhood who will participate in lighting the ‘light’ button on the ‘night of the little fish’, in homage to the half century since the transfer of the Real de la Feria to this location from the Prado de San Sebastián, where it began to be held as a cattle fair in September 1846.
The promoters of this festival, the then councilors of the Seville City Council José María Ybarra and Narciso Bonaplata, who curiously were of Basque and Catalan origin respectively, sought to recover the permission initially granted by Alfonso X the Wise in 1254 to the capital of Seville so that Two fairs will be held, in April and in September.
Almost two centuries later, of the 19 booths that were set up at that first April fair, there have been 1,057, the vast majority private, which this year have been installed in the fairgrounds behind the cover, that large structure that acts as a door entrance to the royal