A Roman City in Istria Is Lit Up, and the Adriatic Looks Across

A 2,000-year-old Roman city has been transformed by contemporary light art, Euronews reported in a video dispatch from Pula. The Istrian port, at the head of the Adriatic, holds one of the largest surviving Roman amphitheatres, still used for concerts and film festivals. The report shows the ancient fabric worked over by projected light, the old stone serving as a surface for a contemporary medium.

Pula lies in Croatia, a short drive south of Trieste along the Istrian peninsula. The two cities share an Adriatic and an imperial inheritance: both were Roman ports, both passed through Venice, both spent the twentieth century inside shifting states, and both now sit inside the European Union and the Schengen Area. The border between them is a Schengen internal boundary and, since Croatia's adoption of the euro, no longer a currency frontier either.

Euronews frames the event as a single visual story, without attendance figures, an artist's name or a run of dates. Those details are not in the wire, and La Veduta does not supply them.