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Illuminate Your Experience: Explore Lyon’s Festival of Lights with LED Installations and Climate Change Awareness
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Experience the magic as historic landmarks and streets are adorned with intricate light designs, inviting you to immerse yourself in a truly illuminating experience unlike any other.
The Festival of Lights in Lyon is a big event where you can see the city in a whole new way with lots of cool art and fun celebrations.
It’s like getting into the spirit of Christmas! While we’re waiting to hear about the next festival happened from December 7th to 10th, 2023, let’s remember the one from 2022 and how it all started.
For almost 30 years now, every December, Lyon becomes a colorful and bright place. The streets, parks, and famous buildings all light up with amazing artworks made by local and international artists.
Let’s take a trip down memory lane and see the fantastic shows that made the city shine before we learn about what’s coming up in 2023.
Poetry, creativity and sobriety
© Onionlab — Simulation of the Agorythm work, one of the installations to be discovered in the Parc de la Tête d’Or during the next Fête des Lumières in Lyon.
In a time when it’s important to save energy, the Festival of Lights is being mindful by using lots of LED lights. Every year, important places like Place des Terreaux, Place Bellecour, Place des Jacobins, Saint-Jean Cathedral in Vieux-Lyon, and even Parc de la Tête d’Or are lit up.
This park, a big green space in the middle of Lyon, has 117 hectares of nature. This year, there are four installations there, including cool shapes projected onto trees by the lake and pretend fireflies on the grass.
To help people understand climate change, there’s a special light and music show at the festival. It shows facts about Lyon’s environment, like air quality and noise, in a creative way. About 2 million visitors are expected to see it all.
A secular tradition
© Muriel Chaulet / Lyon — Iris, one of the key works of the 2021 edition of the Festival of Lights, projected on the façade of the Saint-Jean cathedral in Vieux-Lyon.
The Festival of Lights started way back in 1643 when the city asked the Virgin Mary for protection from the plague. They promised to build a statue of her on Fourvière hill if she helped.
Two hundred years later, on December 8, 1852, when they were supposed to put up the statue but the weather was bad, suddenly the sky cleared up.
To thank the Virgin Mary, the people of Lyon lit their windows with lots of candles called lumignons. And that’s how the Festival of Lights began.
Coeur de Lyon (Heart of Lyon)
©Muriel Chaulet/Ville de Lyon – Charity operation Les Lumignons du Coeur, organised at Place des Jacobins, Lyon, during the Fête des lumières.
The Fête des lumières keeps the original tradition alive by including the participative project “Les Lumignons du Coeur.” It’s easy: show solidarity by purchasing one or more Lumignons du Cœur for 2€ each.
All the money collected goes to a chosen charity before the celebrations begin. In 2022, the profits supported the Salvation Army Foundation. You can buy these candles at the Parc de la Tête d’Or rose garden.
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