The event is one of the world’s biggest illuminated light parades.
SAN ANTONIO — The organization planning the Fiesta Flambeau Parade in 2024 plans to announce the Grand Marshal of the event on Tuesday morning.
The announcement will take place at a news conference at the Japanese Tea Gardens north of dowtown.
The parade route goes through downtown San Antonio and is planned for the night of April 27. The event is one of the world’s biggest illuminated night parades and began in 1948. The parade’s name comes from the French word for a candlestick or torch. In the event’s early years, four-man brigades marched between the other units, carrying torches on five-foot poles. Today, Boy Scouts carry safety flares. All the floats in the Flambeau Parade are lighted.
The news conference announcing the grand marshal Tuesday will be livestreamed within this article.
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