Almost 600,000 fans took to the streets on Saturday and Sunday to witness the first two stages of the Tour de France on the road and more than 106,000 have come to the “fan-zone” in Bilbao these days, a record number of attendees at the playground of this race outside the gala borders.
These are data provided by the spokesman for the Basque Executive, Bingen Zupiria, who together with the Security Minister, Josu Erkoreka, has made an assessment of the development of the “Grand Départ” of the gala round in Euskadi, which has hosted the first three stages.
In the first two (there is still no data for the third) “almost 600,000 Basques took to the streets” to watch the race. These figures have turned the “Grand Départ” into the “social event that has had the most support in the Basque Country in recent decades”, said Zupiria, who considered that for the Basques the passage of the Tour has been “a great celebration”. .
In addition, almost 7 million viewers in France watched the test the first two days (with peaks of more viewers), one million watched each stage through RTVE, another million on German television, 800,000 in Belgium, 772,000 in Italy and 6,000,000. in Denmark, the spokesman specified.
For his part, the Security Councilor, Josu Erkoreka, has considered that the operation organized for the passage of the Tour de France, which he has defined as “an unprecedented challenge”, the Basque Country “has approved it with flying colors”, for which reason you can talk about “success”.
