Toulouse: illuminations cut off by three weeks
As part of Toulouse’s sobriety plan announced on Thursday, the Christmas illumination period will be reduced.
The Christmas lights are also affected by the search for energy saving this winter. They will all be installed as every year, but the lighting period will be reduced “by three and a half weeks”, Jean-Luc Moudenc announced on Thursday, while saying that he did not want to “add to the ambient pessimism”.
The illumination of the illuminations normally begins at the end of November. It kicks off the festivities. This year, this date will therefore be postponed, without the precise day of launch being indicated. The illuminations were then to be extinguished at the beginning of January.
Shutdown at 10 p.m.
Another measure decided as part of the sobriety plan. The Christmas decorations will turn off at 10 p.m. Like monuments. Today, all of Toulouse’s major monuments – the Capitol, the Saint-Sernin basilica, the Pont Neuf, the Hôtel-Dieu, etc. – are illuminated until midnight. There are a total of 82 sites that benefit from such lighting, sometimes with LEDs for the renovations that have been carried out by companies such as at Pont Neuf, sometimes with old lighting.
In recent weeks, the Capitol, which has equipped 62% of its streetlights with LEDs and therefore reduced the electricity bill, did not plan to request the extinction of the lighting at midnight as finally announced. Nor to touch the illuminations. In the Metropolis, Colomiers has also reduced the hours of its illuminations.