Twelve hours before the start of the show, Copacabana Beach was already full of fans of the artist and street vendors
All in Rio. Also. It was also 12 hours at the beginning of the Lady Gaga concert in Copacabana Beach, but the queues for access to Atlantic Avenue were already around the blocks of the neighborhood. For safety reasons, it was necessary to go through one of the 18 block points to reach the promenade, installed soon on transverse roads equipped with metal detectors and face recognition cameras.
In previous experiences, such as Madonna’s Show last year and New Year’s Eve, the agglomerations formed only a few hours at the beginning of the show. But with Gaga it was quite different. Already on Saturday morning there was a line that occupied two isolates. The temperature of about 25 ° C helped. The sky was clear, the sun shone, but it was not very hot.
A track of Nossa Senhora de Copacabana Avenue, one of the main roads of the neighborhood, was occupied by fans on stage. The physical education teacher Humberto Machado, 38 years old, who came to the show with a group of friends from Paraíba and Rio Grande do Norte, said he was in line for access to the promenade for about half an hour.
“We thought it would be fast to enter because it was still too early,” said the teacher. “But the line was impressive.”
The teacher and his friends brought water and sandwiches to plastic containers to cling all afternoon and evening. The glass containers, flammable liquids and sharp objects were prohibited and were confiscated in the barriers.
The neighborhood, quickly nicknamed “Gagacabana”, was a large group at the beginning, without records of accidents. Fans completely assembled, the “small monsters” (monsters), kept on foot, by bus and in particular the subway, showing fans, hats and all types of clothing that refer to the artist, “Mother Monster”.
In front of Copacabana Palace, where the diva is located, the movement was uninterrupted the whole Dawn, especially after the opening of the tests on Saturday evening, where Gaga sang more than ten songs to the delight of all those who were on the promenade, including big shots as big shots Abracadabra, bad Romance AND ShallowThe most downloaded by fans in Brazil on streaming platforms.
Even before the long sections of the beach were already occupied by the fans who marked the place in the sand to look at the diva show and street vendors. And not only. The trees of the central Atlantic flower beds and even the sidewalk near the buildings were played soon on those who wanted to secure a “VIP” place to look at the show.
The tattoo artist Aisha Dutra, 22 and 26 years old, the student Lilian Magalhães has been aboled in a tree from an early age. They are from the Santa Cruz district, in the west area, but have rented an apartment per season in Copacabana, in particular to be close to the show. The duo plan was to reach the beach at 5 on Saturday. But as they went to sleep only at dawn, after the end of the tests, they ended up reaching the edge at 8 in the morning.
“Yesterday, during the rehearsals, we climbed on a tree and we saw that it was the best option, because there were people sleeping in the grill since yesterday and there was no place near the stage,” explained the tattoo artist, correctly installed on the tree.
On Friday afternoon, 2, the city reported that the data consolidated by the Novo Rio bus station and the Tom Jobim International Airport (Galeão) indicated the arrival of another 500,000 visitors in the city between 1 and 3 May, exceeding the initial expectations of 240,000 people. Of this total, 25% would be foreign tourists.
There are also tourists who arrive with private cars, rented buses and flights landing at Santos Dummont airport. The average occupation of the hotel chain is 86% throughout the city, but in Copacabana it reaches 95%.
The military police (PM) has strengthened the security regime.
“The news for this show are the white helmets, police groups specialized in patrolling of multitude”, explained the lieutenant Colonel Claudia Moraes, spokesman for the Prime Minister. “They will circulate among people, especially in the highest number of concentration points, to avoid theft of opportunities to give a greater sense of safety”.
The city involves the presence of over 1.6 million people on the beach of Copacabana, where the stage is mounted and the 16 towers with nine -meter -high screens for five meters wide, allowing everyone to also follow the show. According to the municipal secretariat of economic development and revoting, the event should inject over 600 million dollars in the city’s economy.
“The city is really full, there is a lot of tourist,” said Uber Gustavo Monteiro, 33 -year -old pilot. “Okay for everyone. For me, I had such a show a month.”
Source: Terra
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