Barcelona celebrates 25th anniversary of Olympics with mock torch, original musicians and huge festival
Thursday, July 13, 2017 @ 9:12 PM
BARCELONA has planned a huge celebration of the 25th anniversary of its hosting the Olympic Games this month, with the same musicians who played at the 1992 event back on stage.
Archer Antonio Rebollo will light a mock Olympic torch at the stadium in the north-eastern city on July 25, and it will be paraded through the streets by sports personalities from Catalunya and elsewhere in the country who were competing at the games a quarter of a century ago – including Juan Antonio San Epifanio, alias 'Epi'; Nacho Solozábal, Paralympic athlete Teresa Perales, and medal-winning women's grass hockey team member Elisabeth, niece of the then mayor Pasqual Maragall.
Former member of the band La Fura dels Baus, Hansel Cereza, will be artistic director once again as he was in summer 1992, whilst the group who played in the closing ceremony, Los Manolos, will perform in the Plaça de Catalunya, along with the Barcelona-based band Mambo Jambo.
King Felipe VI, who was then Crown Prince Felipe of Asturias and who competed in the Spanish sailing team at the 1992 games, has been invited.
Numerous other activities will take place on the last Tuesday in July, most of which will be at the Olympic Stadium on the Montjuïc mountain.
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