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Festival de Luces Quito in Quito
Festival de Luces Quito brings a light-art festival to Ecuador's capital, illuminating the city's colonial-era historic center, a UNESCO World Heritage site, with projections, installations, and light-based art displays. The event turns Quito's plazas, churches, and cobblestone streets into an evening canvas for contemporary lighting artists.
Quito sits at nearly 2,850 meters above sea level, its historic center a dense grid of colonial-era churches, convents, and plazas built by Spanish colonizers atop an older Inca settlement, a layering of history that earned the old town recognition as one of the first UNESCO World Heritage sites designated anywhere in the world.