Now that the holiday season is here, all of Budapest is enhanced with festive lights and jaw-dropping visuals, including the astounding light show on the Basilica repeatedly throughout every evening for the Advent Feast – but tonight (December 5th) beginning at 7pm, a unique half-hour-long moving light painting will be screened by the Danube on several Pest-side façades. For this event – organized jointly by Főváros and BVA (Budapesti Városarculati Nonprofit Kft.) – a light-painted lion will walk along numerous riverfront façades from Margaret Bridge all the way to Liberty Bridge.

You may wonder why a lion will be the star of the night on December 5th; the answer is that Budapest’s heraldic animal is a lion, and the projection aims to presents its symbolic progress. This will be the first-ever “walking light painting” here, which is considered unique even on an international scale. The painting will be projected on Pest-side façades all the way between the Liberty Bridge and Margaret Bridge, and the walking lion will be visible from both sides of the river. The great distance enables viewers of the Buda side to follow the lion’s path longer, but Pest-side viewers get an close-up view of the nearly 20-meter-tall majestic creature, brought to life with cooperating partner LaLuz Visuals.
When: Monday, December 5th, 7pm-7:30pm
Where:
between Liberty Bridge and Margaret BridgeFacebook event