The highlight of the celebration of the founding of the state this year, as every year, was the fireworks on Sunday evening: the nation's capital saw a more complex show than ever before, which is unique in Europe.
The program was made unforgettable by 34,000 pyrotechnic effects, grandiose light and laser games, building painting, a flower carpet made of fire spread over the Danube, and nearly nine hundred drones. The rockets of the fireworks were launched from 230 launch points, including seven river barges and 65 pontoons, on the river section between the Margit Bridge and the Petőfi Bridge, as well as on the Szabadság and Erzsébet Bridges.
In addition, 896 drones formed beautiful shapes from the symbols of Hungarian history. The drone show took place over the Parliament and the Petőfi bridge in synchronism, so visitors could see the show from many points in Budapest.
The celebratory fire and light show once again brought to life the fateful historical events of the Hungarian nation, with the defining moment at its center when King Saint Stephen offers the crown and Hungary to the Virgin Mary.
In the seven movements of the production, supplemented by musical accompaniment and textual narration, the birth of the nation, the blood treaty and the conquest, the age of Christian-pagan wars, as well as faith and hope, which define both the past and the present of Hungarians, came to life.
This year's game of fire and light - which is Europe's largest show of its kind - was dreamed up by well-known professionals such as Anikó Seres, winner of the Montreal World Fireworks Competition, and Árpád Iványi and Barnabás Réti, who prepared the artistic concept. And the musical background, evoking the works of the best-known national classics, is the work of Norbert Elek.
