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Bonsai Euro Top 30 and International ConventionTe exhibition Bonsai Euro Top 30 that features the 30 most beautiful European bonsai every four years; has become the biggest European bonsai event.Many call it “the Olympic Games of bonsai.” For the last event, there were over 145,000 visitors!Its success is also due to the originality of the pre-sentation of the trees, which include computerized lighting dynamics that reproduce the efects of sun-light from dawn to sunset.Mulhouse, A World Capital of BonsaiMulhouse is located in the middle of a tourist re-gion, with very old villages surrounded by vineyards. Mulhouse is famous for its museums, especially the Cité de l’Automobile (also known as “Musée national de l’automobile”) and the Musée Français du Chemin de Fer (also known as “Cité du train”), respectively the largest automobile and railway museums in the world.Two rivers run through Mulhouse, the Doller and the Ill, both tributaries of the Rhine. Mulhouse is approximately 100 kilometers (62 miles) away from Strasbourg and Zürich; it is 350 km (217 mi) away from Milan and about 340 km (211 mi) from Frankfurt. It Top; For the 2014 edition, Bonsai Euro Top 30 Invited fve demonstrators, representing each a continent. They created under the guidance of Tohru Suzuki a large “Forest of Peace” which is exhibited today In the famous Albert Kahn garden in Paris.Bottom; Maple Forest, created by Pierre Hérault, received from Tohru Suzuki the award for the most beautiful forest,Facing page; Juniper styled by Luis Balino.