Night views

Now, here's part 2! (didn't read part 1?) After les Terreaux we went to St Nizier (a church), but it was nothing special (and what's more, we were awfully squeezed...not worth it!) The only thing worth watching there was that they projected parts of the church (the gargoyles, to be exact) onto the church and then moved the projections to the actual gargoyles so that you could see where they were.

Here's a pic taken by Joe (I didn't take any pics there); you can see the blurred gargoyle on the church.


Next we headed to Place Bellecour. This year there were projections on the ferris wheel itself.

something with historical significance, no doubt

A quote by Jean Monnet: "It is better to have a dispute at a table than on a battlefield."
They put several quotes like that.

At the end of the projection, they put the credits: "a creation of the city of Lyon"

"The Big Wheel", 10 years in Lyon

Then they started off again (or was the previous pic already the start of a new projection? It's hard to tell...)

a fireball

Oh, it's the Earth!

Actually we got tired of this one pretty fast, probably because of its French history stuff. (we're engineers, not historians lol) So we moved on to the next destination.

nothing special at the théâtre des Célestins this year
(Thanks to Joe again for this photo; mine had the theatre and the little plaques on 2 separate pics...)

Place des Jacobins also pales in comparison to last year.

They projected a love story on the walls and some screens put up for the occasion (the screen's at the bottom...ground level, ya know? :P )

and also on the base of the fountain itself

It started to rain a bit then (luckily it stopped a little later), so we kinda got tired of it all and headed to Fourvière.

Fourvière in the distance, with the cathédrale St Jean at the bottom
Note the words "merci Marie" (the reason for this festival), and the green man on the Eiffel tower (that's a first!)

Then Fourvière itself, after we got to the top. We took the funiculaire (cable car); it was the first time I'd gone up to Fourvière during the fête des lumières...usually I don't because there are so many people and no one wanted to brave the crowd. But Joe was really motivated to go up...so we joined the queue. I think we queued for at least half an hour...we were even going to walk down if there were as many people waiting at the top, but there were less people taking the funiculaire down, so we waited just a few minutes for that.

They had geometrical shapes of different colours coming to place themselves on different parts of the basilica.

more and more of them

Then a random placement in the middle.

This was projected on the ground...the sponsor, I guess.

the making of (this is just outside the funiculaire exit, opposite the basilica)

the green man, a little closer up (sorry, my camera can't zoom)

The back of the basilica (facing out to town)

changing colours (and see the silver "thread"?)

It shows the "terminus", which means "final destination". The final destination of what? Coming up in the next post on the fête des lumières ;)

And here I'm putting another 2 photos by Joe (my camera only managed to captured blurred images of the city view, which is such a pity...)

see the "pencil" building at the back?

You can see the ferris wheel on Bellecour...and the building close to us is the cathédrale St Jean...which will be our next stop!

(Don't forget, click to enlarge the photos!)