New Year's Eve and the best fireworks

Dubai shows its exuberance at such a festive time as New Year's Eve. The tallest building in the world, the Dubaienses take advantage of the circumstance and do nothing less - the huge 800-meter-high Burj Khalifa lights up and catches fire, starting a circuit of fireworks throughout the city center. It's really a circuit and the buildings and other iconic places light up in turn.

Marina Bay lights up on New Year's Eve with its tall, modern buildings. There are plenty of places to watch the festival of light and color, from the luxurious terraces of the buildings to the hundreds of infinity view pools, not to mention the boats moored at the marina itself or the Gardens by the Bay itself. Available options.

If you are going to see fireworks on New Year's Eve, do not forget that Portugal is a country not only of poets, but also of pyrotechnics. Let's start with Lisbon, city of leafy riverside front. The fire party goes from Parque das Nações to Belém, passing through Praça do Comércio, the center of the parade and the epicenter of the party. The capital also has a rare bonus, which is the view of dozens of South Bank fires or, as they say now, in Lisbon South Bay.

It's Walt Disney World in Florida, USA, and its enchanted castles, and its characters, special effects and people watching, brighten the whole scene with their smartphones so they don't miss a beat. Unmissable.

Along the lines of Dubai and Singapore, it is the bright, vertical postmodern environment that makes the New Year's Eve so special. In this scenario, Taipei 101, one of the tallest skyscrapers on the planet, stands out from the rest of the surrounding buildings, which are tall but well below the 500 meters of the giant where the firework has the its center - the surrounding buildings follow in a choreography difficult to describe.

If a list of the most beautiful landscapes and places did not contain Paris, it would not be a reliable list. It is hard to imagine the Eiffel Tower and fireworks coming out of it, illuminating the vast and blessed Parisian sky, city of lights that illuminates with more colors and more tears tonight. More romantic is difficult.

We return to Portugal and one of the most privileged scenery in the country, the Douro River, there, before reaching its mouth, leaving Porto and Gaia eye to eye and, tonight, to the sky and beyond. D. Luís Bridge usually plays a central role in the magnificent choreography of the fires.

It won't be the first place in the world to come to mind, but Red Square in Moscow is as special as it is beautiful and imposing. The large Muscovite square overlooks St. Basil's Cathedral, the Kremlin, which includes the Lenin Mausoleum, the Historical Museum and the imposing GUM, a kind of shopping center in Moscow, built by Catherine II of Russia. On top of all this, of course, is a lush firework at midnight, Moscow time zone, one of Russia's 11th.

Of course the 'wonderful city' had to come up on this list, there is no way not to be. The Copacabana firework is quite possibly the one among all the people in the world that is seen by most people on the spot. No one has ever been able to count all the people, so there is no exact number, but the authorities and event promoters estimate that every year more than two million people fill the entire long Copacabana beach - so that On the contrary, they are more than four kilometers long.

It doesn't come first in the top, but it is, among the most beautiful and important, the first of the year, every year, as the bells sound in Australia before they sound in (almost) the world. The scenery is stunning, with Sydney Harbor harboring the Harbor Bridge and overlooking the sumptuous and unmistakable Opera House. There are many thousands who travel to the city from all over the planet, just to watch this moment.

It is a special spectacle and, although it can be enjoyed from anywhere in the city, it gains a lot if viewed from one of the offshore cruises. This is what made it famous and different from many others, the fact that it is designed to be seen from the sea. The very alignment of the harbor cruises enriches the obviously stunning scenery. Once again, it is shown that the best in the world is from Madeira.

Source: gqportugal.pt