The Tejo Trancão Park will once again host the Rock in Rio music festival in two years’ time, in 2026, for the 11th edition.
The confirmation comes from the organization and the Lisbon City Council which, even after all the complaints about the first weekend, decided to keep the location in the easternmost part of the capital.
The biggest event we’ve had here at Parque Tejo was Rock in Rio and events have to be very well thought out. Events that bring together people, the community, diversity and the openness of Lisbon,” said Carlos Moedas at the end of this year’s edition.
The next edition of Rock in Rio Lisboa is confirmed in this beautiful house that is Parque Tejo,” said the festival’s director, Roberta Medina, also at a press conference.
Remember that this music festival is the second major event to take place in this huge park on the banks of the river, after the World Youth Day, which has brought more than one and a half million pilgrims to this area.
The decision to keep the festival in Parque Tejo Trancão was also due to the organization’s greater commitment to solving the problems of the first weekend .
Hours after it ended, and so far, little has been heard about the accesses to Rock in Rio, the lack of shade, the long queues for the toilets and for food and drink, situations that will have been more successfully eliminated in the last weekend of this festival, which ended with an attendance of around 300,000 people over the four days, having sold out three days with more than 80,000 people, an unprecedented situation in Rock in Rio.
As of July 15, Tejo Trancão Park will once again be “returned” to all Lisbon residents who want to enjoy its space, by which time the entire Rock in Rio infrastructure will have left the site.