Notte Bianca 2019

I am very luck to live in a country where Notte Bianca is organised on a yearly basis. Yesterday, Saturday 6th October 2019, I made sure to attend Notte Bianca and this time I took my Canon 5D Mark II to take some awesome clips that you can view by clicking here.

What is Notte Bianca?

Notte Bianca (translation: White Night) in Malta is a yearly event that began in October 2006. During the evening, after 7pm, all the venues in the capital city of Valletta, that include streets, gardens, historical buildings, museums and theaters, host thousands of locals and tourists. The visitors are entertained by performances, astonished by historical places that normally are not open to public and enjoy culture to the full.
This is an event that started in Russia many years ago, Now it is organised in different countries like Britain, Italy, Iceland, France and Slovakia. It is also organised in other continents. These countries include Australia, United States, Canada and Peru’.

What was available during the 2019 edition?

It is estimated that over 70,000 people visited the event. One of the places that I was very keen to visit was the Fort of St. Elmo. This is a fort in the shape of a star. It was built on Sciberras Peninsula, which today is know as Valletta. The first was built to master and monitor the entrances of both harbours on each side. Al this started in 1417. Nowadays, this fort serves as a very beautiful and informative war museum. During the Valletta Summit on Migration in 2015, this venue served a a media centre. The foreign journalists claimed that it was possibly “the most stunning venue which ever hosted an EU summit”.

Apart of Fort St. Elmo, there were 53 other venues that were part of the Notte Bianca. The most popular were:
National Museum of Archaeology,
the Palace Armoury and
Auberge de Castille.

Other information

The venues were open from 7pm and most closed earlier that 2am
There were additional buses to work during the night to help visitors to go back to their homes and hotels.
There were direct ferries to Sliema and Birgu in order to help smoothing the transfer to and from Valletta.
The lift at Upper Barrakka was operativ until 2am.

Other Links

Public Holidays in Malta

Feasts in Malta 2020 (new updates)