finally the lights are on .the official lighting for christmas was great , quite a big event , exceeded my expectations . some 25 000 people attended the show . the council square and republic’s street were packed . the concert started with a brass band playing christmas songs . after that , the mayor came to press the button , speech , blablabla. the best by far was the children choir “unison” . great christmas songs and amazing singing , impossible not to sing along . after that , “dean’s big band” and in the end , probably the biggest pop-rock band in romania , “holograf”. and not to forget a few fireworks , but i wasn’t there anymore .
there will be another big show on christmas eve and another one for new year , but they will have concerts almost everyday .
but last evening wasn’t very successful , for picture taken anyway . why ? it was drizzling (after rain on tuesday , snow on wednesday , snow and rain on thursday) ; the place was so crowded that i couldn’t take any good pictures ; i couldn’t stay for the whole show ; and my battery went flat too soon anyway (sorry , i didn’t have spares) ; more than half of the lighting instalations on republic’s street didn’t work . so , i have to go again some other evening for more and hopefully better pictures .and i will tell you more about the show , the stalls and the decorations in the next posts .
the shots are from the council square , with the old council house and the christmas trees . there are 6 of them , one big and 5 smaller . in the third shot you can see the beginning of the republic's street .
11 comments:
Thats a large tree, very nice. Its nice to see such a large gathering of people too.
So many lights! Just beautiful
RO, you may not like how your pics came out, but I think they're cool! They really give a good feel, to me, for how it felt there, or what it might have felt like... with all the people and the snow on the buildings... neat!
Fabulous lights - you are so lucky - the only lights we have here are the stars!!!!
Some lovely festive shots!
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beautiful! we were in Brasov last Sunday, they were still working on the tree, but it turned out to be great!
what a huge tree...wonderfully lighted. Great event:)
The lighting on the trees is a beautiful sight in the council square.
You still captured the joyous occasion!
Mari-Nanci
Uff! That's a big tree... and so prettily done up.
Oh My, these are beautiful!!!!
Nice job!
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