With impressive fireworks, dances and songs, people welcomed the new year from one end of the earth to the other
With brilliant celebrations and spectacular fireworks the planet welcomed the new year. New Zealand, Australia and Japan were among the first to welcome 2023, with the countries holding glittering celebrations while Athens and Thessaloniki welcomed 2023 with an equally spectacular spectacle. Two years after the appearance of the coronavirus, the world took to the streets all over the planet to celebrate the coming of the new year without any restrictive days but under the shadow of the new outbreak of Covid-19 in China.
The Municipality of Athens planned a special celebration for the residents and visitors of the capital.
Numerous spectacular fireworks lit up the Athenian sky above the Acropolis, the Parliament and the Constitution, creating a truly spectacular sight. Marios Fragoulis and Giorgos Perris, accompanied by a 10-member orchestra of skilled musicians and soloists, welcomed the new year with songs and melodies loved by everyone. The hosts of the evening were Fotis Sergoulopoulos and Jeni Melita from ERT, who participated non-profitably in the festive program of the Municipality of Athens.
A few minutes before the change of the new year, the mayor Kostas Bakoyiannis went on stage, where everyone counted down to the first second of 2023.
Kostas Bakoyannis wished a Happy Birthday, said he was impressed by the large attendance and expressed his joy that “we are meeting again”. He also wished that “we are all well”, and that 2023 will not only heal the wounds he opened in 2022, but, why not, will also have many beautiful surprises in store for us. Concluding his message, he said to “see people with smiles, like the ones we see now” and sang “Happy New Year, Happy New Year, Happy Golden New Year”.
The party, with music and lots of dancing, will continue in the portico of Varvakeio, where the Municipality of Athens and the most important DJs of Athens have created an open party that will last until the early hours of the morning.
And in Thessaloniki the sky was lit up by the spectacular fireworks
Among the first places in the world to welcome 2023 was the Pacific island of Kiritimati, while Auckland, New Zealand, became the first major city in the world to kick off New Year’s celebrations with fireworks from the Sky Tower.
WELCOME 2023! 🎆🥳
New Zealand was one of the first nations to bid farewell to 2022, marking the occasion with fireworks over Sky Tower in central Auckland.
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— DW News (@dwnews) December 31, 2022
Sydney, Australia welcomed 2023 like every year 2023 with fireworks that lit up its sky over the harbor bridge and opera house.
This was the first unrestricted New Year in two years for Sydneysiders. The lockdown at the end of 2020 and the outbreak of the Omicron variant at the end of 2021 had prompted Australian authorities to impose restrictions on celebrations. Now the measures have been lifted, while the country has opened its borders.
Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, the Philippines and South Korea’s capital, Seoul, also left behind 2022.
The moment of time change in Tokyo
Day became the sky in Taiwan from the fireworks
The Paris welcomed with equally impressive fireworks in 2023 while the Champs Elysees were flooded with people.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuvW9y51Gq0
Crowds of people gathered in New York’s famous Times Square to welcome the new year and celebrate
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