The proposal allows the Medusa festival to overcome the legal stop of decibel, since this is “specific cultural activity” | News from the Valencian community
Decibel Festivals Medusa Sunbeach and Zevra, in the Valensian municipality KaleraDo not undermine the fundamental rights of neighbors, in accordance with the court according to instructions No. 7 of Valencia. The verdict to which the country gained access is non -rescue for the second time the demand of neighbors against the organization of both events and against the city council, for the “special situation with temporary exemption from compliance with the maximum levels of the acoustic violation established in the present” and for “compliance with the rules” by the organization. The judge believes that the “musical events of the Valencian community” are protected by the autonomous law of noise pollution for their “cultural nature”.
Zera is marked in July, and Medusa Sanbich in August. In front of the corps where they are located, two towers are built on the front line, space I and space II. Some neighbors of this last block, consider the volume Electronic music And Ruggeton They organized summer nights in 2023 and asked for a city council, which gives a license to take measures. The plaintiffs believe that the noise violated their fundamental rights included in Article 15 and 18 of the Spanish Constitution: moral honesty and personal intimacy, respectively.
But the city of Kalera rejected the appeal in April 2023, and the neighbors filed the first lawsuit, which was enacted in February 2025 by another court of Valencia. The plaintiffs did not throw a towel and for the second time went to justice, which returned to give the cause to festivals and the city council.
The key consists in modifying the Botanik government, the PSPV-PSOE and Compromí coalition in 2019 Valencian law on protection against acoustic pollution 2002. The proposal provides a fragment of this norm: “The competent authority (City Council of Calera) can free, with a temporary character, the implementation of the maximum levels of violations established in this law in certain acts of the official cultural, religious festive nature and other analogues.
The law also establishes that the festivals “must accept the best technologies in order to reduce the noise level that in no case can exceed the maximum restrictions established in the relevant resolutions.” Valencia community holds very mass festivals Like Arenal Sound, Fib, Sansan, Les Arts, Low or Love 90s.
The judge condemned the neighbors to pay the city of Caller, and two festivals – the costs of the trial. “The condemnation of the plaintiff revenues and must pay the costs caused by both defendants and from the outside,” he says. The resolution also originally wears out the Deman of the “Expla”, that is, it is presented outside of time.
