Canfranc Station comes back to life with a scenic and multimedia lighting system

Fotoprisma will be the company in charge of implementing a scenic and multimedia lighting system in the Canfranc railway station to enhance its historical and artistic value.

the Canfranc Station is one of the most emblematic places in Huesca. both for its historical character and for its cultural interest. Its history goes back to 87 years ago and since 2013 is the Government of Aragon its owner, which has as a priority the recovery of these facilities declared from 2002 Asset of Cultural Interest.

Among the remodeling works that will be carried out in this railway station is a project to provide the property with scenic and multimedia lighting that allows to increase the visibility of this historic building and enhance its historical and artistic value.

This project has been awarded by the public company Suelo y Vivienda de Aragón (SVA) to the entity Audiovisual Productions Photoprism for an amount of 132.400 Euros. This company will be in charge of designing, supply and install a system of lights and projections that allow Canfranc Station to come back to life by combining light effects (on, intensity, colors) that highlight the canvases of the façade, the windows, the towers, the volumes and size of the whole.

The recovery of this building is considered key to revitalize the valley of Aragon and publicize the area beyond the national territory. According to Jesús Andreu, Managing Director of SVA, the objective is to make "an artistic lighting that will make the Station known not only in Aragon, where it is already known, but in the rest of Spain and also in the face of foreigners. We intend to make an action that improves the tourist capacity of Canfranc".

Andreu also highlighted the importance of the participation of the Endesa Foundation that will contribute 59.000 euros to the project "a beginning of private collaboration in the recovery of this Asset of Cultural Interest".

Framed in this set of recovery actions of this, almost centennial, railway station, the SVA will continue the collaboration undertaken with the Higher School of Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Property of Aragon to restore the north wall of the lobby and give it an appearance close to its original image. Work will be done on the restoration of the northern third of the east and west canvases.

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