Albufeira Council and the city’s promotional agency have presented plans for a New Year's Eve that aims to attract 150,000 people.
One of the aims is to spread the event across the city rather than everyone crowding into the main square.
The music starts at 9.30 pm and, according to mayor José Carlos Rolo, "one of the surprises will be the fireworks at midnight from three locations in the city, Fisherman's Beach, Oura Beach and Olhos de Agua Beach."
The idea is to "diversify the sites so that the many thousands of expected visitors do not just focus on Fisherman's Square."
The Council wants to attract people and get them in the holiday mood with comedy at ‘Solrir’ at the Congress hall between the 28th of December to January 3rd. On the 29th of December, there will be another ‘Medieval Paderne’ programme as well as the ‘Star Parade’ along Avenida Sá Carneiro.
Rolo is confident that Albufeira’s programme of events, when added to the entertainment put on at the area’s hotels, will be memorable and plans for 150,000 people on New year's Eve.
The encouragement by the Council for people to visit and enjoy themselves to the full is tempered by Rolo’s words of "support and confidence" for the important work of the security forces, the fire department and the Red Cross and the cleaning teams who ensure everything runs smoothly.
José Santos, from the Albufeira Promotion Agency, focused the issue of security as a determining factor when people are deciding where to party like it's 1999.
