Fêtes de Genève

The Fêtes de Genève (Geneva Festival) is an annual summer event in Geneva, Switzerland. It includes a grand fireworks display.

Geneva Festival
Fêtes de Genève
GenreMusic concerts, fairground attractions, fireworks
FrequencyAnnual
Location(s)Geneva, Switzerland
Years active1947–2017
Grand Fireworks continue to present
Organised byFondation Genève tourisme et congrès
Websitewww.fetesdegeneve.ch

History
Female parade participants, 1968

The Fêtes de Genève started during the first half of the twentieth century. Having suffered financial losses in 2016 and 2017, the festival was abandoned as of 2018.[1] However, the grand fireworks still takes place; it was held on 11 August in 2018[2] and on 10 August in 2019.

Grand firework display
Fireworks at the Fêtes de Genève, 2012

Every year, on a Saturday evening of mid-August, the Geneva Festival presents a grand fireworks display (French: grand feu d'artifice pyromélodique) over Lake Geneva. The event is free although it has a budget of 500,000 to 700,000 Swiss francs.[3] The fireworks involves about forty firing stations on the lake and about 30,000 rockets; they are about one-hour long and are 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.[4] The Swiss Federal Railways organise special trains to bring the spectators home after the fireworks.[5]

See also

Notes and references
  1. "Party over: Geneva ditches summer festival plans", The Local, 15 February 2018 (page visited on 15 July 2018).
  2. The grand fireworks, official website of the city of Geneva, 2018 (page visited on 15 July 2018).
  3. Les traditionnels feux d'artifice des Fêtes de Genève ont attiré la foule, Radio télévision suisse, 10 August 2014 (page visited on 10 August 2014).
  4. "Une heure de feux genevois sur le thème des conquêtes", www.rts.ch.
  5. Fêtes de Genève – fireworks display, www.sbb.ch.


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