Paléo Festival

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The Paléo Festival de Nyon, usually just called Paléo, is an annual rock festival held in Nyon, Switzerland. It started in a small way in 1976 as the Nyon Folk Festival. It was originally held near Lake Geneva and had only two stages, but today it is one of the major open-air music festivals in mainland Europe and the biggest in Switzerland. Today the event has grown to include international artists. It has also moved to the Plaine de l'Asse, accessible either by walking, bus or the Chemin de fer Nyon-St-Cergue-Morez narrow-gauge railway.The festival lasts six days at the end of July, from Tuesday to Sunday, and the final main stage concert is preceded by a great firework display with music.As of 2005, 3.5 million spectators and 2500 artists had been part of the Paléo Festival.StagesThe Paléo features six stages: La Grande Scène Les Arches Le Club Tent La Ruche Le Dôme Le Détour Since 2003, the Paléo has introduced Le Village du Monde section, which is a space reserved for an invited region of the world. This place offers the region's culture and food. It also includes Le Dôme which shows only artists from the invited region.280,000 visitors and over 5,000 staff participated in the 2015 event.TicketsTickets can be purchased on the Paléo Website. Special offers are available usually as early as November of the year preceding the next Paléo festival with discounted all-week passes. Later in Spring the official programme is published and the second, slightly less discounted tickets are available. They are often sold out very quickly. In the months preceding the festival more tickets are sold at full price.

"Avec six jours, six nuits, 230'000 spectateurs attendus, plus de 250 concerts et spectacles répartis sur sept scènes et plus de 230 stands sur le terrain, le Paléo Festival Nyon est le plus grand festival open air de Suisse et fait partie des événements musicaux majeurs en Europe."