How much will Bucharest City Hall spend on this year's Christmas Fair?

Bucharest City Hall has allotted another RON 1,4 million (EUR 304,000) contract for organizing the Christmas Fair in Constitutiei Square, which brings the total costs to almost RON 3 million (EUR 650,000), reports Hotnews.ro. The local authorities have granted a RON 1.4 million contract to local company Five’s International SRL. The contract includes providing the lighting and sound system for the fair and ice-skating rink, powering the carousel and Santa’s House, renting power generators, connecting the merchant houses to electricity, and lighting up the Christmas tree. The company should also promote the fair, and provide ambulance services on site. Before this, the Bucharest City Hall had also allotted a RON 1.55 million contract to local firm Multimedia Film SRL, for setting up the fair, including merchant booths, concert stage, Christmas tree, Santa’s House and access gates. The municipality will also rent an artificial ice-skating rink and a merry go round. In 2016, the city hall spent some RON 7.2 million on organizing the Christmas Fair. Christmas market returns to downtown Bucharest editor@romania-insider.com