22:45h. La Concha bay. 30 min.
FULLY FUSED FIREWORKS (UNITED KINGDOM)
The Fully Fused Fireworks, which last year was programmed in our contest and could not be fired due to inclement weather, returns to our city with the hope of being able to please the San Sebastian citizenry. A company with more than 40 years’ experience and an extensive background in national and international arena, Britain’s Fully Fused Fireworks comes to Donostia/San Sebastian for the first time. Fully Fused Fireworks works in close collaboration with other fireworks companies in the UK and throughout Europe. In fact, its head designer, Cliffe Stonestreet, trained with the top fireworks designers and manufacturers in Italy and Spain, lending his creations an obvious Mediterranean style. Fully Fused Fireworks has been running fireworks shows for the last 40 years with great success, including being the first UK company to win the Monaco Fireworks Festival, as well as being runners-up in Macao and San Remo and competing in Estonia and Spain. His passion is to produce memorable bespoke high-impact fireworks and pyrotechnics displays with an emotional pull for the audience.
PIROTECNIA ZARAGOZANA (Zaragoza)
Founded in 1860, it is one of the historical companies of the Spanish pyrotechnic scene. It all started in a small workshop located in a rural neighborhood of Zaragoza, run by Ángel Sanz. This small workshop was transformed over the years into a true fireworks factory, always in the hands of the same family. This tradition, handed down generation after generation, together with constant innovation, make Pirotecnia Zaragozana synonymous throughout the world with prestigious, safe and quality shows.
The entry into the Étienne Lacroix group in 2014, present in the pyrotechnic sector since 1739, gives Pirotecnia Zaragozana a greater capacity for development. Its subsidiary, RUGGIERI, the undisputed European leader in the production of pyrotechnic shows, allows them to access complementary technical and artistic means, providing its clients with the experience acquired in the most relevant shows worldwide. All this to continue fulfilling its main objective since 1860: the satisfaction of its customers.
CAFFERO EVENT FIREWORKS (Netherlands)
Caffero Event Fireworks is a Dutch company with more than 30 years of experience in the field of fireworks that usually shoots an average of more than 400 events per year. For them, there is something magical about fireworks, it is part of their culture. In Caffero they have a great passion for fireworks, a passion that they want to share in this their first visit to our city.
Their shows are creative and surprisingly different, shows where they celebrate life and create unforgettable moments with fireworks that stimulate the senses. This is a company that is always looking forward and constantly developing new and innovative shows, special effects and products. They regularly participate in major international fireworks competitions, where they rub shoulders with the best.
PIROTECNIA TAMARIT (Valencia)
Tamarit Pyrotechnics is a Valencian company based in Alfarrasi and with barely 5 years since its creation in 2018. At Tamarit Pyrotechnics, from day one, they opted for transparency and the incessant search for excellence.
Last year they fired different shows such as mascletás, castles and pyromusicals throughout the national territory, in provinces as diverse as Granada, La Rioja, Cuenca, Albacete, Almería, Lugo, Ciudad Real, Soria, Toledo, Valladolid or Zamora. In addition to, of course, having a great presence throughout the Valencian Community.
PIROTECNIA XARAIVA (Ourense)
Xaraiva Pyrotechnics is a family business with Galician roots that has not stopped growing since 1960 to become a point of reference for pyrotechnics in Spain. Their shows have an unmistakable stamp as they have their own production material that, together with years of experience, make them unique. Likewise, they have extensive experience in the manufacture, design and storage of all types of pyrotechnic material and the sale of imported material, also carrying out all types of events.
They have more than 70,000 m2 for manufacturing, design and storage with offices in Albarellos, Xinzo de Limia, A Rúa and Trives (Ourense) and Brime de Uz (Zamora). The constant innovation in the material and the continuous recycling have made it possible for this company to shoot fireworks displays in the most important cities of Spain and Portugal in recent years, and to participate in internationally renowned competitions, achieving success against companies from the rest of Spain and other countries like France, Italy, China, Portugal...
PIROTECNIA VALENCIANA (VALENCIA)
In the recent years, Valenciana Pyrotechnics has received different awards in both national and international competitions; first prize in the International Fireworks Competition of Logroño and the first prize in the Tarragona Fireworks Contest, - which they obtained in two occasions - among others. Last year he won first prize at the Bilbao Aste Nagusia.
SCARSELLA FIREWORKS (ITALY)
The Scarsella family took its first steps in 1969, when Guiseppe Scarsella joined his friend and partner Francazzi to found their first pyrotechnics plant in Alatri. Over the years, thanks to their passion, perseverance, creativity and professional approach, the company has earned a consolidated position in the design, execution and production of fine, high-quality fireworks. Making the most of the pyrotechnics knowhow and tradition passed down through the generations and with the continuous desire to improve, they create and execute magnificent pyrotechnics displays. Situated in the province of Frosinone, the company produces unforgettable events. Scarsella Fireworks’ fifty years of experience are all of a guarantee in the world of pyrotechnics, specialised in the thorough planning and performance of pyrotechnic displays of all types and complexity. Today, after several expansions and acquisitions, Scarsella Fireworks has two hubs: Alatri and Anagni. This year, 2023, they participate once again in our Competition due to having carried off the Golden Shell in 2022.
PIROTECNIA VULCANO (Madrid)
Like last year, this company born in Madrid in the eighties of the last century, will be in charge of putting an end to Semana Grande with a pyromusical show. Its founder, José Luis Giménez Privado, Valencian by birth and pyrotechnician by vocation, worked on design and delivery at one of Spain’s biggest fireworks firms. Never one to sit around and with business on his mind, he decided to set up his own pyrotechnics industry in Madrid’s Villarejo de Salvanes. Working to broaden his horizons by the day, his efforts have paid off and he now holds an important place in the sector, having converted Pirotecnia Vulcano into a leading company in the Community of Madrid. Pirotecnia Vulcano specialises in traditional, musical and sequenced displays, producing multimedia shows with music and visual projections onto monuments, facades and water screens. The quality of their displays is backed by their many years in the business and their long list of accolades. Specifically, in our city, they carried off the Bronze Shell in 2014 and Silver in 2019. Last year it was the pyrotechnics in charge of shooting the closing pyromusical of our Big Week
Poster 2023
Photographer: CARLOS LECUBE ALBERDI
The photograph illustrating the poster is the winner of the 6th Fireworks Photo Contest in 2022. It is titled “Estrellas rosadas” (Pink Stars)
The winning photo of the Semana Grande 2022 Fireworks Photographic Contest was taken the night the fireworks from the Martí Compañy from Castellón were launched, which coincidentally was a night with little air and a lot of smoke, with the difficulty that this entails to obtain a nice photo of the fires. So it was a huge joy and surprise for him to receive that award.
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