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SKYCITY Auckland goes French for Bastille Day!

Tuesday 12 July 2011, 11:20AM

By SKYCITY Entertainment Group

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This Thursday (14 July), to mark France’s national day, La Fête Nationale (The National Celebration) or Bastille Day as it is known around the world, SKYCITY will be celebrating in French style by lighting up the Sky Tower as the French flag in red, white and blue and offering some great deals at SKYCITY locations.

Aucklanders should get on down and join in the festivities:

The Lobby (inside the SKYCITY Grand Hotel, Federal Street)
Receive a magnum bottle of Veuve Clicquot for the price of a standard bottle. Only $149.50.

Orbit Revolving Restaurant
Enjoy 360 degree views of Auckland over lunch or dinner and a complimentary glass of G.H. Mumm Champagne when you order an entrée and a main or a main and a dessert. Bookings are essential. Phone 363 6000 or book online.

Bastille Day commemorates the 1790 Fête de la Fédération, held on the first anniversary of the storming of the Bastille on 14 July 1789. The anniversary of the storming of the Bastille fortress-prison was seen as a symbol of the uprising of the modern nation, and of the reconciliation of all the French inside the constitutional monarchy which preceded the First Republic, during the French Revolution.