Abu Dhabi: Abu Dhabi City Municipality has decorated the city's streets with a vast array of eye-catching illuminations to welcome Ramadan in a manner befitting the capital, in the context of the Municipality's endeavours to upgrade the city into one of the world's top metropolitan cities.
The decorative lights include Islamic designs inspired by the spiritual flavour of the month — generating both glamour and tranquillity.
Thousands of decorative illuminated objects have been installed, including more than 600 pink and 1,100 white lights, the decorations also include 700 illuminated shapes with diverse designs and dimensions, measuring two to three metres in length and 120cm to 220cm in width.
Safety
In addition to this the Municipality has set up hundreds of artistic pieces including 250 crescent shapes, 250 star-shaped pieces, and 30 other shapes measuring two to four metres in width with alternating lights. The Municipality was keen to use top quality electric cables to complete the decorative project to ensure the safety of the public.
The cables used measured more than 2,200 metres in length, and the Municipality approved the use of heavy duty insulating materials capable of enduring all weather conditions.
It also authorised the use of the best quality bulbs in all designs, and took into account energy saving, considering their distinctive nature in preserving the environment, saving 70 per cent of electricity consumption and conforming to top-class standards in terms of security.
The Municipality distributed the decorative elements across all districts covering Corniche Street from the Mina Zayed intersection signal up to the Breakwater intersection signal, and Khalifa Street from the signalised junction leading to the livestock market up to Al Mina intersection leading to Abu Dhabi Corniche.
The decorations also extended from the Intercontinental Hotel R/A to Emirates Palace (Bainuna St), from the Breakwater Street junction up to the Ministry of Presidential Affairs roundabout (Al Ras Al Akdar) and from the intersection of Breakwater junction up to Marina Mall and the Shangri-La Hotel.
