Pictures show the transformational clean-up that has taken place since the city’s hugely popular Eurovision Village closed following a successful nine days of events.
The Eurovision Song Contest 2023 festivities came to a close on Saturday night with Sweden's Loreen being crowned winner at a packed out M&S Bank Arena. It also rounded off a near two-week-long cultural programme which saw a range of art installations and performances take place across the city, many of which were held at the hugely popular Eurovision Village at the Pier Head.
The village closed with a spectacular firework display with the party continuing long into the night around the city centre. Liverpool City Council’s Streetscene team moved quickly to lead an enormous clean-up operation through the night. Pictures shared by the Liverpool City Council Twitter account today show the transformational effort to tidy up the Pier Head and Eurovision Village and have it back to its normal state by the morning.
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Teams were also deployed around the city centre with work now underway to dismantle the Eurovision Village. In a tweet shared earlier, the council said "not all the stars of Eurovision were on the stage," adding: "colleagues from [Liverpool Streetscene] worked through the night after Eurovision ended to clean the city."
The event was warmly received by visitors and competition organisers alike. Earlier this week the Eurovision Song Contest's directing supervisor, Martin Österdahl, praised Liverpool for doing a "spectacular" job in hosting the showpiece event.
According to Merseyside Police, the nine-day event saw in excess of half a million people visit Liverpool and took place without any major incidents. Chief Superintendent Jonathan Davie said Eurovision “is the biggest policing operation Merseyside Police has ever done” and required months of planning to ensure “it went ahead smoothly”.
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