Madrid Mayor Pleads for Silence in Siesta

Mayor Enrique Tierno Galvan, complaining that noise is disrupting the midday siesta in Madrid, has called on citizens to stop making “ferocious sounds” this summer.

“In summer months, there comes a time of such ferocious, uncivil and exaggerated sounds that people cannot sleep or take a siesta,” the mayor wrote in the July issue of the City Hall magazine. He called motorcycle riders the worst offenders of all.