Lisbon To Be Flooded With Light
Lisbon’s streets and monuments are floodlit every night in a golden yellow tone, but next month it will be bathed in a number of other colors. It’s part of the Luzboa festival, an event that takes place every two years, when light and public art turn Lisbon into an open gallery of urban light design and contemporary art.
This year a giant harp with laser beams as strings will be placed in Comercio Square from November 8th to January 11th, and will certainly provide some extra magic during the holiday season. Sounds and rhythms will be created using hands or objects, mixing visual art with sound.
Other displays will be seen in the neighborhoods of Alfama, Baixa, and Bica, for a total of 40 different examples of festive lights by artists from Portugal and other European countries.
This street project invites people to go out at night and look at their city literally under a different light, and admire works of art that may only be properly appreciated outside and at night. Other works that don’t necessarily need that setting will be exhibited in the Berardo Museum.
The environmentally friendly LED lights will be turned on at dusk and switched off at midnight, with some extra hours on weekends and national holidays.
