Where is Carl Cox playing?

Carl Cox has played every kind of room, from sweatboxes to stadiums. On 7 August 2026 he adds a strange one: Cave Romane, a 2,000-year-old former Roman quarry near Pula on Croatia's Istrian coast. Centuries of stone cutting left behind a natural amphitheatre of limestone walls. The set starts at 10pm local time. Tickets are out now through Entrio from 49 euros, with BSH Events promoting.

What will the production look like?

The whole show is built around the quarry. Production company Highscream is handling the visuals: laser mapping, immersive lighting and large-scale projections across the rock faces, designed to transform the walls while keeping the raw, half-excavated character of the place. The stone gives a natural echo and a sightline that points everyone at the same wall, so the room does a lot of the work before a single light comes on.

Why does a quarry rave matter?

Spectacle sites like this are how legacy headliners stay essential while festival lineups blur into one another. Cox has always understood that the venue is half the set, and a Roman quarry is about as far from a tent as you can get. He is not the only draw BSH is building there either: Amelie Lens headlines the same walls on 3 July, a month before him, which tells you the promoter is constructing a whole season around the rock rather than a one-off stunt.

A 2,000-year-old quarry, a laser rig and Carl Cox at 10pm: this is the kind of setting that sells the night before a single track is announced.