Santiago de Compostela celebrates the night of the Fires of the Apostle with an audiovisual and pyrotechnic show

The design and execution of the project has been carried out by Acciona Producciones y Diseño that will offer projections with three-dimensional effects made under the mapping technique, lighting 360 grades and pyrotechnics. To do this, have been used 10 projectors 22.000 lumens each, 32 mobile spotlights and 4 sound towers with a total power of 40.000 W.

Tonight will be celebrated the audiovisual and pyrotechnic show of the Fires of the Apostle that begins the celebrations for the feast of the patron saint of Santiago de Compostela. Acciona Productions and Design has been the company chosen for its design and execution, that this year will incorporate projections with three-dimensional effects made under the mapping technique, lighting 360 grades and pyrotechnics.

The Fires of the Apostle can be seen tonight at the 23:30 hours on the façade of the Raxoi Palace, in the Plaza del Obradoiro, and will be repeated (although without pyrotechnics), the days 25 and 26 at 22:30 and to the 23:30. More is expected 5.000 spectators attend this show, according to estimates based on previous editions.

Acciona Producciones y Diseño has used, to produce immersive feel and visual effects, 10 video projectors 22.000 lumens each, 32 mobile spotlights 360 degrees and 4 sound towers with a total power of 40.000 W.

This year, the show will emphasize the traditions of the city, for which it will delve into the origins of the celebration of the festival of Santiago remembering the Fiestas del Cendal, that until the end of the seventeenth century were the popular way to celebrate the festivities in honor of the apostle Santiago. The Camino de Santiago will also have an important role, showing different representations of the Apostle throughout the history of art around the world. likewise, illustrious characters of the city will be part of the narrative, as a tribute, and the designs of ephemeral facades that served to decorate in the traditional burning of the façade will be rescued.

The proposal of Acciona Producciones y Diseño contemplates, as usual every year, a fireworks show on the day 31 July, from the Steps of the South Campus in the Alameda, which will have an approximate duration of 18 minutes and will be visible from much of the city.

Projects like this, are framed in what Acciona calls 'Cultural Engineering', a concept that consists of putting visual and sensory technology at the service of the transmission of history, tradition and values of a city or location to enhance its tourist interest.

In addition, as in previous editions, the result of acciona's comprehensive commitment to sustainability in all its activities, the event will be 'carbon neutral'; I mean, that the CO2 emissions linked to it will be calculated and compensated in a clean energy project, achieving that the final balance of emissions is equal to zero.

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