Las crowds, lights and fireworks have characterized the celebrations at the end of 2024 and entry into 2025 around the world, on a New Year’s Eve without incidents of international scope, although full of images to remember, those that have given rise to 26 hours of celebration, those that are needed to change the calendar page on a planet divided into 39 time zones.
As always, Christmas Island, in Kiribatiwas the first place in the world to celebrate New Year’s Eve, but far from gathering the crowd that, as is tradition, gathers in Times Square, the bright square full of LEDs in New York. This year, that crowd chanted the countdown of the clock and applauded the fireworks flanked by restaurant tables that have reached their record price: up to $2,250 for a dinner reservation overlooking the square.
Beware of firecrackers
In Italia The beginning of 2025 was celebrated tonight with concerts in the squares from north to south of the country. There were more than 3,700 officers deployed on the streets – more than a thousand in Rome – and no serious incidents were reported due to the New Year holiday, but firefighters were given work: 900 interventions, largely due to fires caused in New Year’s Eve celebrations, marked by the bursting of firecrackers and the launching of fireworks.
In various parts of the country such as the cities of Naples, Salerno or Taranto, in the south, almost fifty people were injured by the launching of firecrackers and fireworks.
The electronic light and sound games have been combined with the tradition of fireworks in Beijing y Bangkokwith a massive cultural spectacle in the Chinese capital and a torrent of light and explosions in the Thai capital.
In it United Kingdom The weather has hit the party. In various parts of the country the authorities had activated weather forecast alerts of heavy rains and gales that forced street parties to be cancelled. There were, however, fireworks in London, highlighting the illuminated figures of the London Eye and Big Ben.
In Athens Drones were chosen instead of gunpowder. The Greek government provided an image of modernity to the world by composing congratulatory messages next to the Parthenon through the flight of a swarm of unmanned flying devices.
In Paris and Berlinthe most representative monuments, the Arc de Triomphe and the Brandenburg Gate, were the focus of two light shows offered to the world by French and German public television.
curfews
In Belgiumthe Council of State of Belgium decided to maintain the curfews during New Year’s Eve imposed in the city of Antwerp on fifty people with a history of involvement in altercations and all minors under 16 years of age in a neighborhood in the Brussels district of Anderlecht.
It is the third year that Antwerp imposes house arrest during the last night of the year on a series of citizens with a history of vandalism. The decision affected 27 citizens in 2022 and 31 in 2023, while about 50 have received notification for this year.
.In India, crowds are often a cause for concern. New Delhi and major cities in India Yesterday they said goodbye to 2024 and welcomed 2025 amid strict security measures, although the crowds attracted by this event are not comparable to those that attend the celebrations of some Hindu festivals, especially Diwali, which was celebrated at the beginning of November of the year. past.
The calendar followed by the Hindus is lunisolar, so unlike the Gregorian calendar of the West, it is governed by the phases of the Sun and the Moon. However, in the early morning hours of 2025, hundreds of Hindu worshipers went to temples in different parts of the country to offer their best wishes for the coming year.
