Light Festival

Honestly when I was told that there is going to be a “Light Festival” in the central park of Cluj, I really thought they were talking about laser shows and a spectacular light-parade. Then, I was told, there is only going to be candles… now how spectacular can that be? Well pretty spectacular 🙂 : I have never seen the central park like this. There were thousands of small candles lit in small paper-boxes on the alley borders. It really looked magical.
Light Festival Cluj
There were a total of 8000 candles in the entire park and for 2 hours (21-23) the park lighting was turned off (apart from the lighting around the lake) letting only the candles illuminate everything. Although the place looked good, it was a bit crowded. Because of that, I was not really able to see anything of the street performers who were making a fire-show.

The event is organized by a national organization called “Cercetasii Romaniei” (Romania’s Scouts), who organized this event the first time in 2004 in the central park from Cluj, lighting 200 candles to remind people of the beauty of the little things in life. Since then the event has been organized each year, now it has been extended to 12 cities in the country.

I was not able to do any usable photos (apart from the ones I used to make the picture for this post), so no photos about this event… sorry.

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