Popular Jury Vote
Be part of the popular jury, vote for your favorite fireworks of the Semana Grande 2024 in Donostia-San Sebastián and win great prizes. Vote for your favorite fireworks through this Super Amara webpage and stand a chance to win various prizes.
Cast your vote through the website from August 10th to August 17th at 11:59 PM. The drawing will take place the week of August 19th, and the results, as well as the prize winners, will be published on Super Amara's social media and in El Diario Vasco.
22:45h. La Concha bay. 30 min.
PYROGENIE FEUERWERK (GERMANY)
Pyrogenie Feuerwerk GmbH is a fireworks company from Berlin founded in 2016. Its director general, Ingo Schubert, has been connected to the pyrotechnics industry since 2005 through a variety of international companies. The company has a multi-professional team with extensive international experience who work in the different pyrotechnics fields, events technology and logistics.
Pyrogenie is synonymous with the finest quality products, unique display design and reliable execution. The company’s strongest point lies in the many years of experience shared by its workers in the planning and producing of pyrotechnics effects in almost any environment. In 2023 they won the Golden San Fermín award for their enormously elegant and spectacular display.
PIROTECNIA DEL MEDITERRÁNEO (Valencia)
The manager of Pirotecnia del Mediterráneo, Antonio García Juan, has been a pyrotechnics professional for more than 15 years. Having trained at one of the sector’s most innovative companies – Miguel Zamorano Caballer – in 2014 he decided to go it alone in the fireworks world. He has an excellent team of professionals who boast widespread accumulated experience in working with fireworks and are skilled at designing and developing all kind of pyrotechnics display anywhere in the world, and all to the most demanding quality and safety standards.
They return to our city following their display of 2017.
ILLUSION FIREWORKS (United Kingdom)
Karl Mitchell-Shead, designer at Illusion Fireworks, won the second prize at the 2024 San Fermín Fuegos de Autor Competition. His passion for fireworks and desire to entertain have made this company one of the most awarded in the United Kingdom: Champions at Newby Hall (North Yorkshire) in 2021 - Champions at Eastnor Castle in 2022 - Best Fireworks Display Provider in the United Kingdom in 2018 and 2023.
Taming fire, creating emotion, and pushing the limits of pyrotechnics promote unforgettable experiences that are much more than just a fireworks display—a sky full of magic!
PIROTECNIA LÓPEZ (Coruña)
Working with the latest technological innovations and cutting-edge pyrotechnics techniques perfectly combining tradition and modernity, for more than 150 years the five generations of Pirotecnia López have succeeded in maintaining quality and knowhow in the fireworks world. They create, produce, design, market and stage fireworks shows, always with a close eye on quality, safety and innovation.
Dating back to around 1870, Pirotecnia López has its origins in the Bonaval area of Santiago de Compostela. A clearly family run business, in 1992 it became a Public Limited Company, with the management being taken over by a new generation coming from the worlds of business and industry to continue its legacy. In 2016 they won the Golden Shell, the Youth Award and the People’s Jury Prize.
DI MATTEO FIREWORKS (Italy)
“Luigi di Matteo Fireworks” is a young and dynamic company from Campania, heir of an ancient family tradition. It was founded in 1853 by their ancestor Lorenzo, who was invited to light the bonfires celebrating Guiseppe Garibaldi on his arrival to Naples in 1860 during the unification of Italy. After successfully continuing its pyrotechnics activity outside of Campania, the company participated in the celebrations of the new century in Paris. Today it is managed by Luigi di Matteo and his father Gennaro.
Always on the lookout for ways to improve the art of pyrotechnics, the company has consolidated its displays of excellent technical skill and spectacular production. A regular in fireworks displays in the most important spots of southern Italy.
PIROTECNIA VALENCIANA (Valencia)
Pirotecnia Valenciana participated for the first time in our competition in 2009, when it won the Bronze Shell. Having later carried off the Silver Shell in 2015, it will now participate in this year’s competition as winner of the competition’s Golden Shell in 2023. This young pyrotechnics company has won first prize twice at the Tarragona Fireworks Competition, as well as first prize at Bilbao’s Aste Nagusia competition in 2022.
PIROTECNIA VULCANO (Madrid)
A company born in Madrid in the 80s of last century. Its founder, José Luis Giménez Privado, Valencian by birth and pyrotechnics expert by vocation, worked in design and display at one of Spain’s most important pyrotechnics companies. An entrepreneur with a dynamic approach, he decided to set up his own pyrotechnics industry, in the Madrid town of Villarejo de Salvanés. He has worked by the day to expand its horizons, finally earning an important place in the sector and positioning Pirotecnia Vulcano as a leader in the Community of Madrid. Pirotecnia Vulcano specialises in traditional fireworks, pyrotechnics and sequence displays, as well as in multimedia shows with music and visual screenings onto monuments, facades and water surfaces. The quality of its displays lies in its extensive career and long list of accolades. Specifically, in our city, it won the Bronze Shell in 2014 and the Silver Shell in 2019.
PIROTECNIA OLEIRENSE (Portugal)
The musical firework display closing the Big Week 2024 will be provided by the Portuguese fireworks company Oleirense. Founded in 1948, today Pirotecnia Oleirense is a company and brand of recognised prestige, backed by success accumulated over almost seven decades of dedication to the sector in Portugal.
The epicentre of their action is largely the centre and south of Portugal; however, their triumph undoubtedly lies in the added value infused to the most widely ranging national events thanks to their participation, from north to south of the country, including the autonomous regions of Azores and Madeira.
The Grupo Luso Pirotecnia, of which Pirotecnia Oleirense has been a part since the beginning as a founding company, is a major landmark in the career of this highly rated company and brand enjoying international prestige and importance, boasting the stamp of quality, creativity and exclusivity in all its products, certain to enhance and guarantee the success of any event.
Poster 2024
Photographer: SVITLANA OMELYANENKO
The photograph illustrating the poster is the winner of the 7th Fireworks Photo Contest in 2023. It is titled “Erreflexuak” (Reflections) and is the work of the Ukrainian Svitlana Omelyanenko, who lives in Irún.
As Svitlana tells us: "... every year during the Great Week, we go to Donostia to soak up the festive atmosphere and, of course, to see the fireworks. We usually set ourselves up on the beach of La Concha and from there, armed with a tripod and a camera, we take photos. The day I took that photo, we positioned ourselves on the beach of La Concha, in the front row. The tide was low, so there were very cool reflections on the wet sand. That's where the title of the photo comes from."
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