Like every year, cities around the world lit up to celebrate the new year.
In Paris as elsewhere, the emblematic arteries of large cities were packed with people to watch the traditional fireworks displays.
Around the world in images of the festivities.
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New Year: here’s to 2025!
Magical images that we never tire of. This year again, the sky was adorned with light in the four corners of the world to celebrate the end of 2024 and the transition to 2025. The countdown of the last ten seconds, then the sound explosion for the New Year and the launching of lights fireworks: if the framework is always the same, the largest cities in the world have once again offered spectacular celebrations.
In Paris, the centimeter of free space was once again a rare commodity on the Champs-Élysées, the French epicenter of New Year's festivities.
Long waits, sometimes much longer for those who wanted to be in the front row, rewarded at midnight with incredible images above the Arc de Triomphe.
New Year 2025: images of the party on the Champs-ElyséesSource : TF1 Info
“Only happiness”, for those who visited the most beautiful avenue in the world for the first time on the evening of December 31, as well as for the others.
London party in Dubai
Just like Paris, London is a “must see” in Europe for New Year's celebrations, with for the lucky ones a clear view of the London Eye or Big Ben.
Being well placed, however, mattered less in Dubai, where the exceptional pyrotechnic spectacle offered by the imposing Burj Khalifa, the scale of the Emirati city, was at least partly visible from wherever you were. in the city.
Christ the Redeemer of Corcovado dominating the fiery sky of Rio de Janeiro, an image as powerful as ever of the transition to the new year.
To close this selection of the most striking images of New Year's Eve, the unmissable Times Square in New York which has once again kept all its promises. Taken by storm in the afternoon, Manhattan's central avenue once again amazed the thousands of courageous people who braved the cold for a long time to experience this unique moment.
