The Fêtes de Genève (Geneva Festival) was an annual summer event in

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. 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 2016 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

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display (French: ''grand feu d'artifice pyromélodique'') over

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. The event was free although it had a budget of 500,000 to 700,000

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. 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

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, hundreds of thousands of people came to Geneva to see the grand fireworks display of the Fêtes de Genève. The Swiss Federal Railways organize special trains to bring the spectators home after the fireworks.Fêtes de Genève – fireworks display
www.sbb.ch.

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External links

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Official page of the grand fireworks
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History

Grand firework display

See also

Notes and references

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