This app will guide you through the Festival of Lights in Ghent. A dazzling four-day light show it will be. From Thursday 26 January until Sunday 29 January the city’s nights will, for the second time, be the setting for a surprising spectacle, ingenious creations, spectacular performances and beautiful events, based on light.
The second edition of the Festival of Lights Ghent takes place in the town centre of Ghent. This year the light festival’s theme is ‘Happiness’, which is not a coincidence since 2012 is the Maeterlinck Year in Ghent. On 9 November 1911 the Swedish Academy announced it was awarding the Nobel Prize for Literature that year to the author of Ghent origin, Maurice Maeterlinck. His magical fairy tale "L’Oiseau bleu", the Blue Bird, that broaches the subject of a pursuit for happiness. Music, of course, also makes one happy. Recently, Ghent was honoured with the title of Creative City of Music , by UNESCO. So, in 2012 light and music go hand in hand. Musicians and light artists join efforts to create various and different light projects.

The Festival of Light takes place in the historical centre of the Ghent. Along the route, the visitor will see many historical places and monuments, from thursday 26 January till Sunday 29 January 2012, from 6 PM till midnight