Extinct in December 2020 due to a health crisis, the Festival of Lights should once again illuminate the Lyon winter from December 8 to 11. “The idea is again to have a grandiose party, because it is the spirit of the party”, revealed Grégory Doucet in an interview.
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The ecological mayor of Lyon has revealed that part of the programming canceled last year would be resumed, and that the illuminations would leave the city center to go to Blandan and Subsistances, where the choreographer Jordi Gali will present a monumental creation . Special attention will also be paid to the youngest spectators.
The city’s budget amounts to 2.4 million euros, to which must be added 500,000 euros from sponsorship, which is half as much as in 2020.