White Nights Festival 2022 Saint Petersburg, Russia
During the period of the White Nights Festival from June to July in Saint Petersburg, the sun noway sets and the megacity noway sleeps. Russia’s artistic capital brims with life when its occupants enjoy the mesmerising twilight of the night sun with classical music, pieces, ballet and theatre performances as well as cotillion parties, road musicales, fireworks and the spectacular Scarlet Sails event marking the peak of the jubilee. The beautiful thoroughfares, conduits and islands of Saint Petersburg come indeed more lyrical during this period thanks to the megacity’s status as the world’s most northerly located megalopolis of over a million occupants. During a good two months the sun hardly sinks below the horizon, boxing Saint Petersburg every night into a magical tinge. For art suckers and night owls likewise, this is by far … Read more