Video: The world's largest fountain Dubai: an extravaganza of water, light and music
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Musical fountains - one of the most spectacular inventions of the 20th century. For the first time, the idea to combine sound, light and water came to the head of the German engineer Otto Pristavik. In 1920, in one of the Berlin restaurants, he organized a show, the program of which included a ballet … to the "musical and water" accompaniment. Since then, many "singing" and "dancing" fountains have appeared around the world, one of the most beautiful is rightfully considered fountain dubai.
Dubai is famous not only for skyscrapers (on the roof of which they even play tennis!), But also for the amazing musical fountain, which is one of the largest and highest fountains in the world. Its length is 275 m, and the height of the jets reaches 150 meters, which is approximately equal to the height of a 50-storey building. The fountain is illuminated by 25 colored spotlights and 6600 light sources.
During the day, on the square in front of the Burj Khalifa, where the fountain is installed, you can hear a variety of music: from the works of classical composers to modern Arab and world stage. There are compositions by Celine Dion and Andrea Bocelli, Michael Jackson and Sarah Brightman, as well as many other celebrities.
The grand opening of the fountain took place in 2009, during the ceremony, a lot of especially powerful water-pressure devices worked, which made it possible to create an enchanting symphony of water and music. True, viewers could see such a program only once, today the fountain is provided by less powerful pumps. Although their capabilities are enough to lift jets of water to a height of 128 m.
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