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With
over 60,000 spectators due once
again for the annual Pyronale, held
in Berlin at the Olympic Stadium. Be
dazzled and amazed at this year's
imaginatively choreographed displays
as they battle it out to become
world champions.
Pyronale is an international
competition where the greatest
fireworks makers in the world from
Switzerland, Italy, Greece and South
Korea to show off the full scope of
their skills to a massive audience.
Since 2006 the festival has been
held the first weekend in September
in the German Capital. Since 2006,
on the first weekend in September,
the international elite of the
fireworks artists take to compete
for the technically brilliant,
imaginative and magnificent
fireworks show in compliance with
prescribed guidelines. The Pyronale
is with the fireworks company
renowned worldwide, and
participation is regarded as a great
reference in its history.
The
Olympiastadion (Olympic Stadium) is
a sports stadium in Berlin. There
have been two stadiums on the site:
the present facility, and one that
is called the Deutsches Stadion
which was built for the aborted 1916
Summer Olympics. Both were designed
by members of the same family, the
first by Otto March and the second
by his son Werner March.
The
current Olympiastadion was
originally built for the 1936 Summer
Olympics in the southern part of the
Reichssportfeld (today Olympiapark
Berlin). During World War II, the
area suffered little damage. After
the war, the British military
occupation used the northern part of
the Reichssportfeld as its
headquarters until 1994. From 1951
to 2005, the Olympischer Platz had a
giant antenna transmitting for all
the portable radios in Berlin.
Aside
from its use as an Olympic stadium,
the Olympiastadion has a strong
footballing tradition. Historically,
it is the ground of club Hertha BSC.
It was also used for 3 matches in
the 1974 FIFA World Cup. It hosted
six matches, including the final, in
the 2006 FIFA World Cup and was
renovated for that reason. The
German Cup final match is held each
year at the Olympiastadion. The
stadium sees use in other sports as
well; at one point it held the world
record for the attendance of a
baseball game, thought to be over
110,000.
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