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The Montreal Clock Tower during the Montreal Fireworks Festival. The Montreal Fireworks Festival (French: L'International des Feux Loto-Québec), is the largest fireworks competition in the world. It has been held yearly in La Ronde over the Dolphin Lake since 1985 and is named after its main sponsor, Loto-Québec. It hosts an estimated 3 ...
The fireworks are synchronized to music which is also broadcast over a local radio station. Over 3 million spectators gather each year to see the fireworks. The main viewing locations are: the Jacques-Cartier Bridge (closed to traffic the evening of each event), La Ronde (amusement park), and on either side of the St. Lawrence River ...
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. [ 4 ]
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The European Union's import rules for fireworks and firecrackers are governed primarily by Directive 2013/29/EU, which sets the legal framework for the safety and regulation of pyrotechnic articles, including fireworks, across the EU member states. The directive aims to ensure a high level of safety for consumers and professionals, facilitate ...
The Festival of Lights (French: Fête des lumières, [fɛt de lymjɛʁ]) in Lyon, France is a popular event that originally aimed at expressing gratitude toward Mary, mother of Jesus around December 8 of each year. [2]
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On Wednesday, July 4, 2012, 7,000 fireworks, [1] intended for a 17-minute display, discharged prematurely and simultaneously from all four barges and the pier. [10] The entire cache exploded in less than a minute. [11] The coordinated fireworks are triggered by computer, and the premature discharge was blamed on a corrupted computer file. [12]