First ice festival in Madrid

Madrid has launched the 2022 Ice Festival - an international competition featuring some of the world’s best ice sculptures.

This is the first time the Spanish capital has put on an ice exhibition and it has become an instant hit, with visitors praising the displays on Monday.

A total of 12 teams competed in the competition, with sculptors taking part from 10 different countries, including Canada, the USA, Japan, Italy and France.

The teams had seven days to finish their works with over 100 tons of ice was used in the production of the sculptures, which are kept frozen in a specially designed room. The winning exhibition was the Canadian entry by Julian Doré and Jean Francois Gauthier called “Invasion of Dimensions’.