Montgolfiade
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Balloon glow / night glowing
As Montgolfiade be hot air balloon -meeting referred. Various competitions are held between the individual balloon teams, often on several consecutive days: target approach, time trials and others. There is often the possibility of taking a ride in the balloon as a passenger and posting a kind of balloon mail . A so-called balloon glow often takes place at dusk. The name Montgolfiade is derived from the Montgolfier brothers , who were the first to construct a hot air balloon.
Well-known Montgolfiaden are:
- Thuringian Montgolfiade in Heldburg
- Bad Homburg Montgolfiade
- Barnstorf balloonist festival (BBFF)
- Balloon Festival Bonn
- Mondial Air Ballons , in Chambley near Metz , France (the largest Montgolfiade in Europe every two years)
- Festival International de Ballons, Château-d'Oex , Switzerland
- Düsseldorf balloon festival
- Epiphany in Kisslegg
- Saxonia International Balloon Fiesta in Mügeln , Saxony
- Montgolfiade Munster
- Sint-Niklaas , Belgium
- Tegernsee valley Montgolfiade
- Warsteiner International Montgolfiade