The Tower of Hercules celebrates its 10th anniversary as a World Heritage Site with a spectacular videomapping

The projection will turn this monument into a gigantic 36-inch screen.×24 metros. For its execution, APD will use nine projectors 22.000 lumens each and will have about 24.000 watts of sound power distributed over two audio points.

To celebrate the 10th Anniversary of the declaration of the Tower of Hercules as World Heritage of Humanity, he 29 In June at eleven at night a large-scale three-dimensional projection will be made that will be shown on its facades.

The audiovisual show will take place under the name 'Luz e Son de Hércules' and its execution will be carried out by Acciona Producciones y Diseño (APD). It will unite history and mythology to show the cultural importance of this monument and will turn the Tower of Hercules into a gigantic projection screen of 36 meters high (the height of the monument) by 24 wide. It will be projected on both sides, each of 12 meters wide.

The visual resources will adapt to the architecture of the monument, enhancing its peculiar morphology throughout the sequences through nine projectors of 22.000 lumens each. Besides, will have some 24.000 watts of sound power distributed over two audio points and with a soundtrack composed specifically for the show, adapted to the narrative rhythm and locution.

The show constitutes the central point of an extensive program of activities designed by the A Coruña Tourism and Congress Consortium to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the World Heritage Declaration of the Tower of Hercules. The monument was declared a Site of Cultural Interest in 1931 and World Heritage Site in 2009 and is currently the only functioning Roman lighthouse in the world.

‘Light and Son of Hercules’

The protagonism shared between the Tower of Hercules and the old sailor, which talks about the sea and its idyll - half love and half hate for the storms experienced - allows us to trace a plot thread that not only highlights the history of this World Heritage monument, but will also provide an emotional audiovisual piece, exciting and spectacular for its effective 3D production and its careful soundtrack created specifically.

The memory of the old sailor immerses the viewer in a nostalgic and epic journey in time that will take him to visit mythical and real scenes, like the battle between the God Hercules and the Giant Geryon. He will also talk about the great Atlantic routes of sailors, how the lighthouse, since its construction, serves as a guide to sailors, and about how this great Tower became a sign and silent witness of the history of the city of A Coruña.

The journey that begins in the past will be projected forward in a dizzying manner to reach the founding of the city of A Coruña, when it takes center stage and also becomes a universal path through the Xacobeo path.

The story will conclude in the present to focus on a cosmopolitan and modern city that is projected towards a future in which the city, The sea and the tower share an idyll and in which not only those sailors who reach beyond the seas have a place., but all those who arrive from the entire world.

The weight of the narrative script of the show will be shared by the character of the old sailor and by the female voice that is personalized in The Tower of Hercules. This narrative duality will allow the story to be told from a double perspective.. a romantic, emotional and poetic, with the voice of the sailor, and another from a more historical point of view, epic and with the wisdom that centuries give written in stone, with the voice of the Tower.