We are here in front of one of the production sites of the Ciudad de la Luz. Located southwest of Alicante, on the southern coast of Spain, this “City of Light”, inaugurated in 2005, is a huge complex of 11,000 square meters of state-of-the-art film studios. It also has more than 15,000 square meters of warehouses and set construction workshops, 16 hectares of outdoor filming areas and three buildings with dressing rooms, make-up rooms, hair salon, offices, as well as all the necessary services. to production.
Sentenced in 2012 by Europe for illegal aid to its operation, the cinema center has since been closed. And the facilities are abandoned. As a recent article from the World, so that it does not die, the Valencian government nevertheless installed the regional ministry of the university and new technologies and a training center there. And spent nearly 1 million euros annually to maintain the site, having never given up hope of recovering the use of these places intended to make the Ciudad de la Luz a new Mecca of cinema. Having been authorized to reopen its doors on 1er July, the city of cinema hopes to quickly regain its activity.