![]() ![]() Nightly musical entertainment drifts out from under big white tents. The warm, flickering light is amplified by the million LED lights festooning the gardens. The candles float on water, hang in the air, dot the massive fields in glass orbs, hurricane lamps and mason jars. The staff of Brookgreen lights more than 8,000 candles by hand each evening. ![]() Held mostly on December weekends and ending on New's Year Eve, the event appeals to all ages. It's truly a wondrous, magical, awe-inspiring sight. It's a work of art, a display worthy of the renowned sculptures that live in Brookgreen Gardens year-round. Nights of a Thousand Candles is not just a holiday light display. There are many colorful and charming light displays in South Carolina, and even a few fantastically tacky ones, but there's nothing else like this. Keep walking through the various outdoor rooms of the largest public sculpture garden in South Carolina, and you begin to feel like you've been transported to another world entirely. Walk down this oak allée and you'll be entranced. A simple string of lights is transformed into something mesmerizing when it joins thousands of other strings of lights, dangling from the massive twisting branches of a dozen ancient live oaks at the sprawling outdoor sculpture garden in Murrells Inlet. ![]() But that's only if you've never been to Brookgreen Garden's Nights of a Thousand Candles. A string of white Christmas tree lights dangling from a tree limb doesn't sound terribly magical. ![]()
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