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Culture 7 min readJanuary 22, 2026
AlUla Moments: the outdoor festival everyone's talking about
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Nour Al-Shehri
The Journal
Concerts inside a 2,500-seat mirrored concert hall, dinners among sandstone canyons, and night skies you won't forget.
AlUla transforms each winter into an open-air stage. Maraya — the largest mirrored building in the world — hosts symphonies and global artists, while installations like Desert X AlUla turn the ancient landscape into a sculpture park. Between shows, wander Hegra's Nabataean tombs, ride a hot-air balloon at dawn, or dine at Annabel's beneath the stars. It's the closest thing the Middle East has to a Burning Man meets Coachella — but with 200,000 years of human history beneath your feet.
