Saudi Arabia: Alula’s ‘Hegra After Dark’ awarded Best Arts & Culture Event

 

Immersive nighttime experience in mountains of Alula wins award 

Hegra After Dark, an immersive nighttime experience set amidst the ancient Nabataean tombs of Hegra, has been awarded Best Arts and Culture Event at the 2025 Middle East Event Awards. The unique event transforms the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Hegra into a living stage, blending incense trails, site-specific performances, and captivating guided storytelling.

Launched in 2021, Hegra After Dark offers guests horse-drawn carriage rides, a theatrical marketplace, and immersive walkable paths that wind through monumental tombs carved into sandstone cliffs. The upcoming edition will run from November 26, 2025, to February 14, 2026, coinciding with the return of the Ancient Kingdoms Festival.

 

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Hegra, Saudi Arabia's first UNESCO World Heritage Site, served as a key stop along the Incense Road during the Nabataean era and later became a Roman outpost. The site joins other ancient locations in AlUla, including Dadan, Jabal Ikmah, and AlUla Old Town, each rich with inscriptions, ruins, and layers of civilizational history.

Produced in partnership with ImaginExperience, Hegra After Dark is part of a growing slate of programs that aim to immerse visitors in AlUla’s cultural heritage through performance and place.

Source: cairoscene.com