Those long-awaited nights have come. A festival of lights and color in the center of the city where I live, a city that is the most used subject in my posts. A warm and pleasant mid-April night in Bucharest, Romania.
Spotlight - Geometry of the City
A festival that is now in its 7th edition and that laziness has prevented me from going to so far, took place from 21 to 23 April, after a two-year break caused by the well-known pandemic that we all experienced.
This time curiosity was stronger than laziness. Around 10 p.m. I arrived on Victory Avenue, the most beautiful avenue in the city and, moreover, my favorite..., another reason to overcome my laziness. To be honest with me, it wasn't really laziness as much as a desire for peace and quiet on a Sunday night. The wish remained unfulfilled, arriving at Revolution Square I understood that it would be a hard night...
A sea of people walking in all directions, with bikes, scooters, dogs, and children! I can't remember the last time I saw such a crowd!
This festival of lights consists of projecting lights and images on buildings and statues. The visual effect is special and complemented by music. All in all, a magical, interesting, and surprising atmosphere. A novelty for many...
I will show you some of the most successful projections of this kind on the emblematic buildings of the city, located in the Revolution Square, the square where the former Royal Palace of Romania is located, which, unfortunately, was not included in this program.
The first building that caught my attention is the Romanian Athenaeum, perhaps the most beautiful building in Bucharest.
The colors of the lights are constantly changing, and special projectors and lasers transform the images in front of our eyes.
The interesting thing here was that the Athenaeum building was not in the foreground. All the attention was drawn to the statue of Mihai Eminescu, the national poet of Romania. Besides the lights that were projected on the statue, some of his most beautiful poems were recited.
Nearby are projections on the grand Hilton Hotel.
In the continuation of this nocturnal walk, towards the center of the Revolution Square, we approach the Royal Palace and the statue of Carol I, the first king of the Romanians. This equestrian statue has been the star of every edition of this festival.
A better understanding of what all the people in the market saw can only be given with a video, even if not of good quality, as much as a friend managed to get this video.
Even the dogs were more interested in the many lights than the too many people around.
Beyond the statue of King Charles, a symbol and character who had a major contribution to the modernization of Romania in the second part of the 19th and early 20th century, there is another important and very controversial monument.
The Memorial of Rebirth!
The Memorial of Rebirth (Memorialul Renașterii in Romanian) is a memorial in Bucharest, Romania that commemorates the struggles and victims of the Romanian Revolution of 1989, which overthrew Communism. The memorial complex was inaugurated in August 2005 in Revolution Square, where Romania's Communist-era dictator, Nicolae Ceaușescu, was publicly overthrown in December 1989.
Here the lights are like wheels of fire.
This past Sunday was more different than the others because of this street festival of lights and music, Spotlight. In the title I also used the phrase "How People Went Crazy" which I think just needs a little explaining. I had this impression about the people who were present on the streets because there were far too many of them compared to the event.
There were many tens of thousands of people, I have never seen so many people on the streets since the Romanian Revolution in December 1989!
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