RAS AL KHAIMAH CITY - The Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah is preparing to celebrate the start of 2023 with an extraordinary musical fireworks display and the aim of breaking new Guinness World Records.
Already last year the United Arab Emirates with Dubai and Ras Al Khaimah itself had set absolute records in terms of volume, duration and shape of fireworks: to welcome 2022 Dubai had set three Guinness World Records, with a fireworks display that lasted 40 minutes;
and Ras Al Khaimah with fireworks and 452 pyrotechnic drones that lasted 12 minutes over an area of more than 4.7 kilometers, setting two firsts.
It was also Dubai that greeted 2014 with the largest fire show ever, on 96 kilometers of coastline,
which made him enter the Guinness Book of Records for the first time.
Before that it was Valparaíso in Chile that had put on a record fireworks display on New Year's Eve 2007, beating the previous year's record set by the island of Madeira for the end-of-year celebrations.
This year's one in Ras Al Khaimah promises to be truly sensational: the #RAKNYE2023 show will be supported by pyrotechnic drones, nano lights, colors and choreographies with electric rhythms.
The fireworks display will light up the sky over a 4.7 kilometer stretch of seafront between Al Marjan Island and Al Hamra Village for a truly record New Year's Eve.
The celebrations will also be enriched by a busy calendar of activities, events and festivals (visitrasalkhaimah.com).
Before that it was Valparaíso in Chile that had put on a record fireworks display on New Year's Eve 2007, beating the previous year's record set by the island of Madeira for the end-of-year celebrations.
This year's one in Ras Al Khaimah promises to be truly sensational: the #RAKNYE2023 show will be supported by pyrotechnic drones, nano lights, colors and choreographies with electric rhythms.
The fireworks display will light up the sky over a 4.7 kilometer stretch of seafront between Al Marjan Island and Al Hamra Village for a truly record New Year's Eve.
The celebrations will also be enriched by a busy calendar of activities, events and festivals (visitrasalkhaimah.com).
Before that it was Valparaíso in Chile that had put on a record fireworks display on New Year's Eve 2007, beating the previous year's record set by the island of Madeira for the end-of-year celebrations.
This year's one in Ras Al Khaimah promises to be truly sensational: the #RAKNYE2023 show will be supported by pyrotechnic drones, nano lights, colors and choreographies with electric rhythms.
The fireworks display will light up the sky over a 4.7 kilometer stretch of seafront between Al Marjan Island and Al Hamra Village for a truly record New Year's Eve.
The celebrations will also be enriched by a busy calendar of activities, events and festivals (visitrasalkhaimah.com).
In the past, other New Year's celebrations have entered the Guinness Book of Records: to greet 2019, Turin hosted the largest magic show in Piazza Castello with 70 international performers, while for the auspicious end-of-year dive in Piazza Mazzini, Viareggio reached the record number of participants , a good 322. A fun and gluttonous Guinness record was that of a Cividale del Friuli oven, which to greet 2020 prepared the gubana - the local Christmas cake - the largest in the world, weighing 102 kilos.
We need to go back to 1994 to remember the Guinness record of the singer Rod Stewart, the artist with the largest audience at his own concert in the entire history of rock: to celebrate the
Another type of record was the one that the DJ and record producer David Guetta achieved in Paris during the lockdown New Year's Eve: to greet 2021, the artist created "United at home", a live streaming followed by 50 million viewers from all over the world , tune in to see his Guinness World Record-breaking show for most watched DJ set on Facebook.
Finally there is another record end of the year, that of Alessandro Bonaccorsi who performed 28 tattoos without ever stopping in 57 hours and 25 minutes, making it the longest artistic New Year's Eve in the world and thus entering the Guinness Book of Records.
And this year?
In addition to the primacy of the Emirate of Ras Al Khaimah, here are some suggestions for celebrating with records.
Scottish Hogmanay is the world's largest New Year's party
: lasts 4 days, between music, dances, fireworks and the suggestive torchlight procession along Princess Street, accompanied by the music of the bagpiper bands that ends in Calton Hill, in Edinburgh.
Set sail from Orlando, USA on the afternoon of December 31st and celebrate the end of the year on the Wonder of the Seas, the largest ship in the world, which sails to the Caribbean countries.
Attend the Metropolitan Opera "Fedora" in New York, the largest opera house in the world with an auditorium 137 meters deep and a stage 71 wide and 44.5 meters deep.
Fly to Christmas, an island in Oceania, and celebrate before friends or relatives back home;
this locality, in fact, is part of the archipelago of the Equatorial Sporades and is the first to hear the New Year's tolls.
In the same time zone, but a little further west, you can choose the islands of Tonga and Samoa.
You can also enter the Guinness Book of Records by boarding a plane that takes off in the new year and lands in the old one, just to celebrate New Year's Eve twice within a few hours.
But the experience is reserved for those who can afford a private jet.
Lastly, two Guinness Book of Records establishments for record-breaking parties: Botín, the oldest restaurant in the world in Madrid, and Delirium Cafè in Brussels, the brewery with the greatest variety of commercially available beers.
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