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Date Published: 21/04/2022

ARCHIVED - Hours-long queues and handwritten tickets: organisational shambles at the Burial of the Sardine festival

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Hundreds of people have been left disappointed in Murcia by the poor organisation of ticket sales for the fiestas this weekend

<span style='color:#780948'>ARCHIVED</span> - Hours-long queues and handwritten tickets: organisational shambles at the Burial of the Sardine festival

Ahead of the iconic Burial of the Sardine fiesta in Murcia this Saturday, hundreds of people of people have been queuing up for hours to buy tickets and try to secure a place to finally enjoy the great parade, but many have been left disappointed by the slipshod work of festival organisers.

One disgruntled customer complained, “My daughter spent five hours queuing for five hours on Wednesday in Gran Vía” but that “they are doing the tickets by hand”. For this reason, it is feared that on the actual day of the celebration, April 23, these handwritten tickets will not be accepted and there will be problems for people wanting to enter.

Wannabe spectators also fear that seats to watch the parade will be sold twice over, as happened in the 2016 parade in Plaza Camachos, which only didn’t end in a pitched battle due to the intervention by the Local Police.

The tickets are being sold by the company Romian Producciones for the first time, and are only available from very limited sale points in Calle San Juan de la Cruz, Gran Vía and Avenida de la Constitución, with many feeling that they have made an absolute mess of it. Everyone else who cannot prepurchase a ticket will have to buy their tickets on the day of the event and pay in cash to the families who have traditionally, for decades, been in charge of the management of the event.

Murcia Town Council has been accused of mismanaging the whole affair. “This never happened with the usual people,” lamented one commentator.

There has even been some speculation that the trouble is partly because the best seats have already been sold off to interested parties behind doors.

“They haven’t put up any kind of information,” said 75-year-old José, who was already queuing on Wednesday afternoon and “it turns out that they weren't selling seats, only [standing places on the] grandstands.” He says that, although he was among the first, there were no chairs left where he wanted them, on Gran Vía.

“I don’t know who they sold the Gran Vía seats to, if I was the first and they said there weren’t any left.”

José says that he is in the queue not for himself, but because of his grandson who really wants to witness the exciting spectacle.

“I’m 78 years old and this is the first time I’ve seen this happen,” added another woman.

Images: @Rebepl / Twitter

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