Motion for debate: Neighbours against Carnival noise: who is right?
Proposed by Marta Arias
Neighbours from Tenerife against the noise.
Neighbours from Tenerife reported the noise that the carnival produces during this public holiday.
The Carnival’s programme, which was 25 days long, included lot of musical festivals after ten o’clock in the night in most of the days and bring together thousands people from everywhere of Spain and from others countries.
Neighbours alleged that the noise went beyond 55 decibels (the legal highest point of noise), and consequently they couldn’t stay in their homes during the holiday.
The mayor of Tenerife, who was absolutely angry, said that the neighbours´ request had mutilated the 200 years-old party. And, Juan Fernando López Aguilar (ministry of Justice and candidate for Canaries´ Presidency) claimed that the Carnival is part of Canaries identity.
Do you agree with the mayor or with neighbours? Are there any solution for the people who have to live with that level of noise more than a week?
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I understand how those neighbours would feel, especially with the noise.
It involves thousands of people having fun every year and if someone as for example in this case the neighbours from that place in Tenerife
decide to stop celebrating the Carnival what would happen if other people will complain about another ancestrals traditions as for example Easter on many spanish cities as Seville?. Carnival lasts just for about a couple of weeks and I think it´s worth keeping it as an ancestral tradition.
I can understand that noise can be annoying, parades, dancing, music and fireworks but Tenerife’s carnival is one of the most important and famous festival of the world, what’s next??? Cancel “fallas”?? have a little patience!!is only once a year!!
The Mayor forgot that the Carnival has changed a lot in the last 200 years.
Nowadays thousands of people travel from the Peninsula to Tenerife, orchestras use powered loudspeakers and the party spread until 4 or 5 in the morning whereas 50 years ago it only spread until 1 or 2.
I Know Carnival provides lot of money to Tenerife but the Mayor (who probably lives far away the noise) should find a solution for those neighbours.
People all around the world are dealing with noise which comes from traffic, factories, and so on every day, and nobody has complained. Why? Because it provides them a benefit, and the same argument play this role in the subject of the Carnival: One of the most important benefits for the Canary Islands comes from tourism, and Carnival is the celebration that reaches the most important amount of tourists convinced of spending their money there. Knowing this, it’s not so hard to put up with Carnival noise, is it?
Rebeca I totally agree with you in this topic.
When people get a benefit from something even if that provokes on them bad feelings they don´t complain about it . Honestly I don´t understand the neighbours attitude with the carnival, it´s one of their most representative festivals . What´s the point about complaining?.
Talking about this sort of celebrations created houndreds of years ago and that envolve so much tourism and benefits for the city, I think neighbours should be much more reasonable.
And as we’re talking about a couple of days, as much a week I don’t see this request asresious as neighbours see it.
Should we believe that old people in Tenerife dindn’t make noise and have fun at Carnival when younger?I don’t think so,times are changing that’s true, but Carnival happens only once a year and this people who complain should go out, have fun and forget griefs
Is only once a year!!! Nuria, that is the perfect summary!
This kind of famous celebrations are really funny and provide a lot of benefits. If you don’t like the celebrations you can always move to a calmer village.
Even though the festival takes place only once a year, why should the neighbours have to tolerate such noise for a whole week? Some people do sleep at night and this kind of famous celebration shows a complete disregard for people, not to mention small children who go to sleep before 10. Move the celebrations to a non-residential area!!!!
a carnival gives to the town lots of thinks, such a plenty hotel occupation, restaurants, cafes, pubs…those incomes of the town will give better pulic instalations that everybody will be using.And the only price for it it`s noise for a week.
i think that a cultural event like carnival deserves a nonsleep week.
Villallana, I’m not earning money with the Carnival of Tenerife, the neighbours who complained about the noise are the ones who are getting a benefit from the noise: tourism, and, consequently, money for their city.
It’s understandable that neighbours are annoyed about noise and it must be very unpleasant especially if that makes you change your daily routine. But it’s about the most important tradition in the Canary Islands and it only lasts two or three weeks. Moreover, it attracts lots of visitors each year and everybody knows that tourism is an important part of the economy. And I bet some of those who now protest against it, have sometime enjoyed the celebration, probably without minding if they disturbed anyone.
I have mixed feelings about this subject.
On the one hand, I know this celebration provides lots of money to the city and so that all the citizens get profits from it. On the other hand I can understand that it’s not easy to cope with all that noise at night, especially when you have to get up early in the morning.
What about moving the noisiest events far from residential areas?
Villallana…why do small chilldren have to go to sleep before 10? I think that this point is not a good reason for saying that the carnival is in the wrong place, because I remind you that during carnivals the children are on holiday, and their parents take the children with them to enjoy the celebrations. And If you refer to the children whose parentes are against carnival…I’m sure that these children don’t have sleep-problems and they don´t have to get up early in the morning…
Carnival is a traditional celebration so it shouldn´t be forbidden. However, there are ill people, old people or people who have to get up very early to go to work and they are disturbed by the noise. I think that a good solution would be to celebrate Carnival somewhere in the outskirts.
From my point of view a lot of people is suffering from a lot of sounds everyday and there is no solution for them, so I think that neighbours in tenerife should be more comprenhensive,because this is only once a year and the carnival give them a lot of benefits and create a lot of fortune,for example in hotels, restaurants,and also recognition all over the world
Many people have such a quality of life who likes critice everything, because you can like or hate carnival. But what they don´t realise is carnival moves many million of € each year in Tenerife. I´m sure everybody who have critices carnival has relatives, friends… who work in carnival and an important part of his profits depend on carnival, and what´s more in a resource as Tenerife if a huge group of people protest against something I think it´s imposible any of them work for tourists.
I think Carnival shouldn´t be forbidden because it is a traditional festival in Tenerife and it´s only a week in which people have to admit that there´s a lot of noise. It also makes a great benefit for them and there are a lot more people that are sorrounded by noise and it´s not just a week.
It’s always the same. Those who complain about the noise- and those who make headlines of their complaints- are those who live in the best, expensive, areas of a city, and those who are newcomers. They think they have the right to not be bothered with anything because they think they have paid for this privilege. But those who live in poorer areas undergo almost everything without making headlines of it. Who cares about them! Their complaints never catch the attention of anybody, and if they do they never go beyond a simple anecdote.
It is quite unfair to deprive people of the carnival but at the same time is unfair to deprive neighbours of sleeping or resting when they want, maybe it would be a good idea to give nighbours some compesation
I think the best way to solve that contreversial problem is to celebrate carnival in an area where neighbours don´t get disturbed by the noises of the party.
To be honest, I really don’t care about carnival. Even in my own city I don’t like to celebrate that kind of events.
On the one hand, there are thousands of people who want to enjoy and have fun, and this is quite understandable, they’ve been doing it every year. On the other hand, there are that people whom don’t want the others to enjoy, coz they themselves don’t want to do it (whatever the reason).
We all have to be reasonable, life’s also for fun, it’s not for fight. Let them sleep, but let them have fun. !Both sides are right¡
I disagree with you,Luis,although I neither care about carnival i think that it is a tradition,and moreover in Tenerife,is not just the party,but also the importance of it in spain