Once again, the Three Kings will arrive in Tarragona by boat on January 5th. Their Majesties will disembark in the Serrallo maritime district, and their arrival will not go unnoticed. To welcome Melchior, Gaspar, and Balthazar, the sirens of Tarragona's boats and ships will sound. A 21-gun salute will also be fired to celebrate the arrival of the Three Kings in the city, scheduled for 6:15 p.m. To ensure the safety of the Three Kings and the thousands of children who will accompany them during the parade, the Tarragona City Police will close the streets along the procession route. The first disruptions will be in the Serrallo district, shortly before the arrival of the Three Kings. After delivering a short speech from the balcony of the Teatret del Serrallo to greet the children and begin throwing the first sweets, Their Majesties will be taken to Plaça de la Font in a parade that will pass through the city center streets and involve road closures. The Guardia Urbana (local police) will close and reopen streets as the royal procession advances.

The room is large and spacious, with many screens on strategically placed tables. Arranged in a semicircle, they all face the same point: a wall with even larger screens displaying feeds from some of Barcelona's security cameras. They can see all the cameras in the city. This joint police control room is located on Lleida Street. During the Olympic Games, it served as the competition's server room, but for the last 20 years, it has been a nerve center for city security. Officers from the Mossos d'Esquadra (Catalan Police) and the Guardia Urbana (Barcelona's Municipal Police) are present. Next door is another room for the Barcelona Fire Department. On one screen, there is a Excel The system is color-coded: green indicates available resources, and red indicates those currently in use. Today, almost everything is green. It's a quiet day, but those in charge explain that these rooms are bustling with activity on key dates. Two important dates are coming up: New Year's Day and the Three Kings' Day parade.

This year, the Three Kings will make some minor changes to their route to improve traffic flow in the city center. The parade will begin, as usual, at the royal encampment in Devesa Park at 6 p.m., from where the floats will depart towards the Eixample district. This year, however, instead of passing through the Poet Marquina Square From Ronda Sant Antoni Maria Claret, next to the train station, the procession will turn onto Carrer Santa Eugenia towards Plaça Marquès de Camps and Gran Via. There, it will resume its previous route along Avinguda de Sant Francesc, Carrer Santa Clara, and finally arrive around 8 p.m. in Plaça 1 d'Octubre, which, since the pandemic, has replaced the much narrower final reception in Plaça de l'Ajuntament (City Hall Square).

The Cacau i Negritud collective, which brings together "Black people from all the Girona regions united in our Blackness to combat racism," as they define themselves, is demanding that the Girona City Council ensure that no one wears blackface in the 2026 Three Kings Parade. "What we want is for no one to wear blackface. If they can't find enough Black people, then let there be white people in King Balthazar's entourage, nothing would happen, and if they want to wear makeup, they can wear whatever they want, even unicorns. But we believe that Blackness is not a costume," they wrote on January 5th. an article to the ARA in this regard.