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Bristol International Balloon Fiesta

Early morning mass ascent

Location(s)

Ashton Court, Bristol

Years active

1979 -

Date(s)

August

Genre

hot air balloons

Website

www.bristolfiesta.co.uk

The Bristol International Balloon Fiesta is held during August in Bristol, England. Teams from the UK and other parts of the world bring their hot air balloons to the site and participate in mass ascents where as many as 100 balloons may launch at a time.

The event is one of the largest in Europe and it is common to have crowds of over 100,000 on each of the four days of the festival. It takes place in a large country estate Ashton Court. Mass launches are made twice a day, at 6am and 6pm, subject to weather conditions.

One popular attraction is the night glow, when balloons are inflated and glow to music after dark. These are held on the opening Thursday night at approx 9:30pm, followed by a spectacular fireworks display. There is another night glow at the same time followed by the fireworks on the Saturday night. Some people see these as the highlight of the fiesta. Another attraction is the large number of special shaped balloons which take off.

As one of the worlds leading balloon makers, Cameron Balloons are near to the fiesta site, in Bedminster, it is fitting that most of the best loved special shaped balloons are made in the city. Favourites in the past years are Rupert the Bear, The Scottish Piper, Bertie Bassett, The Flying Hen and The Jaguar Car.

In the past, the fiesta used to be held in the second week of September, but due to cancellations of flights and the muddy ground because of bad weather, it has been moved in the start of August. This had had a great effect as more flights manage to fly, cancellations are now normally due to high winds.

The nightglow is one of the most popular parts of the fiesta.

In 2003, the weight of crowds returning from the Balloon Fiesta and Ashton Court festival put such a great strain on the Clifton Suspension Bridge that it was decided to close the bridge to all traffic, including pedestrians, during these events from 2004 onwards.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Bristol Balloon Fiesta

Official site

Information and pictures from the fiesta from BBC Bristol

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Culture in Bristol

Venues

Bristol Hippodrome Bristol Old Vic Colston Hall Cube Microplex O2 Academy Bristol The Thekla Tobacco Factory Watershed Media Centre Wickham Theatre Winston Theatre

Festivals

Bristol Festival of Nature Bristol Harbour Festival Bristol International Balloon Fiesta Bristol International Kite Festival Bristol Shakespeare Festival St Pauls Carnival

Museums and Galleries

Arnolfini Blaise Castle Blaise Hamlet At-Bristol Bristol City Museum and Art Gallery Bristol Harbour Railway Bristol Zoo British Empire and Commonwealth Museum Georgian House Glenside Museum Industrial Museum Kings Weston Roman Villa Observatory Red Lodge Museum Royal West of England Academy SS Great Britain

Parks

Parks of Bristol Ashton Court Blaise Castle Brandon Hill College Green Queen Square Snuff Mills The Downs

Shopping

Broadmead Cabot Circus Cribbs Causeway The Mall Bristol

Churches

All Saints' Bristol Cathedral Bristol Community Church Buckingham Baptist Chapel Chapel of the Three Kings of Cologne Christ Church, Clifton Down Christ Church with St Ewen Church of Holy Trinity, Hotwells Church of Holy Trinity, Stapleton Church of the Holy Trinity with St Edmund Church of St John the Baptist, Bristol City Road Baptist Church Cotham Church Counterslip Baptist Church Clifton Cathedral Crofts End Church Holy Trinity Church, Kingswood Holy Trinity Church, Westbury on Trym New Room, Bristol Pro-Cathedral of the Holy Apostles St Mary Redcliffe Redland Chapel St. Augustine Church (Bristol) St Augustine the Less Church, Bristol St George's Church, Brandon Hill St James' Priory, Bristol St John the Baptist, Frenchay St Luke's Church, Brislington St Mark's Church, Bristol St Mary le Port Church, Bristol St Mary on the Quay St Mary's Church, Henbury St Matthews Church, Cotham St Michael on the Mount Without St Nicholas, Bristol St Peter and St Paul, Bristol St Peter, Bristol St Peters Church, Bishopsworth St Philip and Jacob, Bristol St Stephen's Church, Bristol St Thomas the Martyr, Bristol St Werburgh's Church, Bristol St. Paul's Church, Bristol Temple Church, Bristol Trinity Centre Whitefield's Tabernacle, Bristol Whitefield's Tabernacle, Kingswood Woodlands Christian Centre

Pubs

Black Castle Public House Clifton Down railway station The Coronation Tap Hatchet Inn, Bristol 17 King Street, Bristol King William and Naval Volunteer Public Houses Llandoger Trow Mauretania Public House Nova Scotia, Bristol The Old Duke Old Post Office, Bristol Palace Hotel, Bristol Printers Devil, Bristol Pump House, Bristol Seven Stars Public House, Bristol Shakespeare Inn, Bristol Shakespeare Public House, Bristol Stag and Hounds Public House The Crown, Bristol Clifton Lido and The Victoria Public House

Coordinates: 512637 23830 / 51.4437N 2.64157W / 51.4437; -2.64157

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