The White Night Rome

La notte bianca 9 september

The fifth edition of the Notte Bianca will be held on Saturday September 8th in Rome, an event that Italy’s capital can no longer do without. Since 2003 four editions of the great collective event have been organised with thousands of people taking part in it every year. Romans, Italian and foreign tourists of all ages have shared the emotions of this unique experience with enthusiasm and curiosity, allowing the serene production of a myriad of activities and thereby decreeing their success.


And so once again for the year 2007 the Notte Bianca returns, with its energy, filling the streets, the squares, the monuments, museums, private art galleries, shops, the theatres as well as places of art and culture in the entire city, from the centre to the suburbs.


More than ever, on this occasion Rome confirms its status as an active city, one with no barriers, an open city capable of modifying its horizons always proposing new ones.


The Notte Bianca is a great event, always characterised by multidisciplinary characteristics, answering the needs of an urban community wishing to compete with its own heritage, its identity, its dreams, returning to culture the profound value it should have as a system of relationships between individuals, as a network capable of influencing even the quality of life.


This year the Notte Bianca will be a precious opportunity for getting to know other populations and establishing a dialogue with them.


Walking the streets of Rome will be like walking the streets of the world, on a journey of discovery to near and distant countries, to the sounds and the cultures of the world, with performances and artists from the five continents and Italian productions that have adopted cultural contamination as their fundamental theme.


The world in one night is the theme for the 2007 edition of La Notte Bianca


For Saturday September 8th the programme includes performances, concerts, plays, dance shows, magic and circus arts, contemporary art installations, fireworks, even a concert of church bells, all characterised by tradition and experimentation, merging together for one night an ensemble of artistic capabilities, cultural scope, knowledge, techniques and ways of expressing art and entertainment, all very different one from the other, and that is both multifaceted and harmonious.


White Nights Europe

The success the Notte Bianca has enjoyed in Paris ever since its first edition in 2002, has led many European capitals and large cities to organise their own Notte Bianca based on the Parisian model.

Wishing to share their experience in organising this event, and also to experience reciprocally enriching artistic exchanges, since 2006 these capital cities have decided to join forces, with the objective of completing successfully a shared artistic project entitled “European Notti Bianche”.

Operation “European Notti Bianche” also provides a privileged network of cooperation between the events organised in the various European capitals and hopes to extend to others too.


In 2007, six capital cities (Paris, Rome, Riga, Brussels, Madrid and Bucharest) decided to formulate a shared artistic project consisting in the creation of a “lounge” area in the heart of each Notte Bianca.

Since 2007 the city of Bucharest has joined the “European Notti Bianche” organising its first Notte Bianca for September 22nd.


Rīgā, 25 augusts

Roma, 8 September

Bucharest, 22 September

Madrid, 22 September

Bruxelles, 29 September

Paris, 6 October