The music-synchronised fireworks show put up by the award-winning Lourdes Fireworks Factory for the feast of Our Lady of Victories in Xaghra, Gozo, this year takes special significance given that it's the 450th anniversery of the Great Siege of 1565.
The making of the Xaghra fireworks will feature in a documentary about Maltese pyrotechnics on the German state TV NDR.
A crew from NDR filmed the preparations for the fireworks show including work on the launch site at Nuffara.
The show will be held tonight at 8.45pm.
A special fireworks and lights show to mark the anniversary will also be put up at Mellieha, with ground fireworks in the square following by a display which will be let off from the roof of the parish church.
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