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The Eurockéennes de Belfort is one of France's largest rock music festivals. The Eurockéennes (a wordplay involving the words rock and européennes (European) festival is based in a nature reserve in Malsaucy. The most recent festival took place the 4th, 5th and 6th of July 2008.

Eurockéennes festival at the Malsaucy site

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About

History

1989 marked the first time round for the festival, when it went under the name Le Ballon - Territoire de musiques, named after the nearby Ballon d'Alsace. The festival was organised to take place on the Ballon d'Alsace, but the peninsula on the Malsaucy lake was chosen in the end. It was the brainchild of the Conseil général of the Territoire de Belfort, who wanted to dynamise their département with a big cultural event for its youths.

In 1990 the festival was renamed les Eurockéennes de Belfort.

Statistics:

10,000 revellers in 1989
70,000 revellers in 1993
80,000 revellers in 2002
95,000 revellers in 2004
100,000 revellers in 2006

Site

Les Eurockéennes takes place on the peninsula of Lake Malsaucy, 10 kilometres from Belfort. A number of different stages are present - la Grande Scène, le Chapiteau, la Loggia and la Plage. Most of the time there are simultaneous concerts on different stages, altogether in 2005 there were about 70.

A campsite, 3 km from the main site, is the free temporary home to 15000 festival-goers, with a free shuttle bus running between the campsite and the entrance to the main area.