Thursday 11 December 2014

Lyon and its Fête des Lumières

The celebration, known as the Festival of Lights in English, means that many of the main façades in France’s third-largest city become awashed in colourful light shows while the inhabitants line the outside of their windows with candles and tea lights.
The festival was born out of pure coincidence in 1852 when the Lyonnais were set to cap the annual September 8 tribute to Virgin Mary for saving the city from the plague in 1643 by inaugurating a statue of the virgin at the basilica of Fourière.
Val says it must really be a spectacular light show, but one has to worry about the birds and insects of the town that get disorientated.      Comments to taglines82@gmail.com