IN IMAGES – Lantern Festival: 2,500 giant installations light up at Parc du Ritouret, in Blagnac

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The 2,500 giant light installations of the Blagnac Lantern Festival come to life this Wednesday, December 1st. Every evening from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. until February 2, 2022, the Parc du Ritouret and its more than 8 hectares lights up for this show created by Chinese artisans from Zigong, a Chinese city famous for its lantern festival.

Serenity and happiness

Patrice Gausserand, the organizer of the festival, president of MAG Conseil, promises visitors “gaiety, serenity and happiness”. For the former mayor of Gaillac, where the festival had taken place until then, this show “hypnotizes people” regardless of their age. In all, spectators will be able to discover 45 paintings, he explains, from the one that represents the Chinese astrological signs, to that of the dinosaurs, through the nod to aeronautics and to the giant dragon posed on Lake.

In all, 2,500 giant light installations come to life every evening © Radio France
– Clemence Gourdon Negrini
To keep this Festival alive until February, more than 200 volunteers come to lend a hand
To keep this Festival alive until February, more than 200 volunteers come to lend a hand © Radio France
– Clemence Gourdon Negrini
In the heart of Blagnac, this Lantern Festival obviously contains a few nods to the aeronautical industry
In the heart of Blagnac, this Lantern Festival obviously contains a few nods to the aeronautical industry © Radio France
– Clemence Gourdon Negrini
64 metal craftsmen, painters and specialized dressmakers have built the 45 paintings for this Blagnac edition of the Lantern Festival
64 metal craftsmen, painters and specialized dressmakers have built the 45 paintings for this Blagnac edition of the Lantern Festival © Radio France
– Clemence Gourdon Negrini

“It is too beautiful !”

From the youngest to the oldest, the lucky ones who had the opportunity to discover the show in preview are unanimous: “stars in their eyes”. If children prefer animals instead, adults emphasize the a nod to the city of Blagnac, with two landscapes around aeronautics.

Even dinosaurs have their space in the Ritouret park
Even dinosaurs have their space in the Ritouret park © Radio France
– Clemence Gourdon Negrini
Organizers hope to see between 600 and 700,000 visitors
Organizers hope to see between 600 and 700,000 visitors © Radio France
– Clemence Gourdon Negrini
On the lake of the Parc du Ritouret also the luminous giants come to life
On the lake of the Parc du Ritouret also the luminous giants come to life © Radio France
– Clemence Gourdon Negrini
Magical, the illuminations are very detailed and thought out to the millimeter
Magical, the illuminations are very detailed and thought to the millimeter © Radio France
– Clemence Gourdon Negrini


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