From the archive · 2007

Posted by Don Amaro

Madeira Fireworks (The Video)

As we have mentioned before … the city of the Madeira Island, Funchal, has achieved to register a Guinness World Record with its pyrotechnic exhibition, which involved 17 tons of fireworks … that caused 660,300 detonations … 8,000 explosions per minute … over an area of 6 km by 2.7 km wide … more than 8 minutes long.

For those that could not witness this spectacular fireworks display … here is a video that was made on that day. Unfortunately a video will never capture the true atmosphere. Just imagine that all around you the sky is being lit up … that is almost impossible to capture it all on film. As you will notice the first few minutes I was enjoying the show and forgot to take the camera to film around.

This video is the uncut version (without music … which I normally put). Soon I will create a music version of it.

I also invite anyone who was also there and filmed this event, New Year’s Eve fireworks 2006 – 2007, to share it with us on the web.

Also feel free to put my video on your own website. To add the video to your pages simply copy and paste all the code bellow.

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Posted by Don Amaro on Madeira Blog on 3 January 2007.

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