The Fêtes de Genève (Geneva Festival) was an annual summer event in
Geneva
Geneva ( , ; ) ; ; . is the List of cities in Switzerland, second-most populous city in Switzerland and the most populous in French-speaking Romandy. Situated in the southwest of the country, where the Rhône exits Lake Geneva, it is the ca ...
, Switzerland. It included a grand fireworks display.
History
The Fêtes de Genève started during the first half of the twentieth century. Having suffered financial losses in 2014 and 2017, the festival was abandoned as of 2018. However, the grand fireworks still takes place; it was held on 11 August in 2018 and on 10 August in 2019.
Grand firework display
Every year, on a Saturday evening of mid-August, the Geneva Festival presented a grand
fireworks
Fireworks are Explosive, low explosive Pyrotechnics, pyrotechnic devices used for aesthetic and entertainment purposes. They are most commonly used in fireworks displays (also called a fireworks show or pyrotechnics), combining a large numbe ...
display (French: ''grand feu d'artifice pyromélodique'') over
Lake Geneva. The event was free although it had a budget of 500,000 to 700,000
Swiss francs. The fireworks involved about forty firing stations on the lake and about 30,000 rockets; they were about one-hour long and accompanied by music.
In 2013, according to the
Radio télévision suisse, hundreds of thousands of people came to Geneva to see the grand fireworks display of the Fêtes de Genève. The
Swiss Federal Railways
Swiss Federal Railways (, SBB; , CFF; , FFS) is the national railway company of Switzerland.
The company was founded in 1902 and is headquartered in Bern. It used to be a State-owned enterprise, government institution, but since 1999 it has be ...
organize special trains to bring the spectators home after the fireworks.
Fêtes de Genève – fireworks display
www.sbb.ch.
See also
* Jardin anglais
* Geneva International Film Festival Tous Ecrans
Notes and references
External links
*
Official page of the grand fireworks
Music festivals in Switzerland
Fireworks events in Europe
Canton of Geneva
Tourist attractions in Geneva
Annual events in Switzerland
Summer in Switzerland
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