Madrid Mayor Pleads for Silence in Siesta

MADRID — 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.