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Mid-June is a spectacular time to visit Beauvais, a city located about an hour's drive north of Paris. For three nights in a row in early summer, the city celebrates the annual Nuits de Feu festival. "Nights of Fire" is indeed an apt name for the event, whose centrepiece is the most extensive and elaborate fireworks show in the region.
The Nuits de Feu takes place at the Château de Chantilly and commemorates the 1672 visit of Louis II of Bourbon to the château, which is located in the French region of Picardy. He was greeted with an amazing fireworks display to honour his presence in Beauvais, but now the same treatment is granted to ordinary people, thousands of whom take flights each year to attend what may well be the largest pyrotechnics show they will ever see.
The fireworks display is designed and administered by professionals who try their best to exceed their own personal best, year after year. The result is a display worthy of a much larger city; Beauvais has only 60,000 year-round inhabitants. Although visitors' nights during the festival are taken up with admiring the fireworks, the Château de Chantilly is a welcoming and popular daytime destination, when the Musée Condé it houses is open to the public. Considered second only to the Louvre in the quality of its art, the museum specializes in French paintings and manuscripts from the 15th and 16th centuries.
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