Muscat: Muscat Festival will open today under the theme ‘Live Oman’ in all its details and beauties in the greatness of man, place and time within the spacious splendor bouquets of events and pleasant atmosphere during the period from January 14th to February 13th.
Al A'mirat and Al Nassim Public Parks will open from four in the afternoon until 23:00 during the festival days except weekends and it will be extended until 12 at night to enjoy the activities of the festival.
The festival will launch daily fireworks shows for few minutes in Al A'mirat and Al Nassim Public Parks at half past eight o'clock in the evening to bring more dazzling and interesting atmosphere for visitors.
Muscat Festival sites are numerous for this year, in addition to Al A'mirat and Al Nassim Public Parks. Those sites include the city's theatre, Oman Automobile Club, Kalbouh Park, Oman Tour’s courses in a number of governorates, Omani Society for Writers and Literati, Photographic Society, Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque, Cultural Club and a number of galleries and arcades and squares.
This session is interested in the revival of the Omani heritage, cultural heritage, the preservation of the traditional identity and the traditional heritage as a prominent feature of Oman Renaissance and originality, and the attention to inventions and creations which manifested itself during an era of Islamic civilisation.