More than 70,000 people are estimated to have visited Valletta for Notte Bianca on Saturday night.

Prime sites in the capital were taken over by about 1,000 artists, singers, musicians and dancers participating in more than 100 events that ranged from performing to visual arts and live music to literature, street art, food and fairs.

This year’s festival, organised by the Malta Council for Culture and the Arts, encouraged collaborations across generations and sectors. It also paid tribute to the notion of legacy. A traditional elevated stage used in village feasts, known as a planċier, was built in St Lucy Street for the festival’s live classical, opera and brass band music programme.

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