To celebrate the Llum BCN 2026 Festival, taking place from 6th to 8th February 2026, Mirador Torre Glòries will be offering a special 50% discount on all tickets, along with extended opening hours.
What would happen if a single line of light could illuminate and trace the city’s grid? For the 15th edition of the LlumBCN Festival of Light Arts, organised by Barcelona City Council under the artistic direction of María Güell, the Torre Glòries transforms into an urban beacon that casts a new light over the city through Laser Faces, an installation by artist Antoni Arola. The piece explores new approaches to urban lighting from a more sustainable, efficient and less intrusive perspective.
With its 360º views over Barcelona, Mirador Torre Glòries becomes both a privileged vantage point and a new source of light that engages in dialogue with the city. Throughout history, towers have maintained a two‑way relationship with their surroundings: watchtowers, bell towers and clock towers have long served as points of connection between the city and its inhabitants.
Laser Faces revives this exchange — not only from the city towards Torre Glòries, but also from the tower back to the citizens — through a laser beam that reshapes its volume and presence.
A Tribute to Blade Runner
Laser Faces becomes a visual dialogue inspired by—and paying tribute to—Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982). Whereas the projected faces in the film symbolize technological power and omnipresence, here the faces represent the opposite: the living soul of the spaces we inhabit, the collective memory that looks back at the tower and transforms it into a new organ of the city.
The installation explores the disruptive potential of the laser as a lighting tool and invites a continuous reflection on urban darkness — or the absence of light — from a more sustainable, efficient and less intrusive perspective.
Enjoy 50% off at Mirador Torre Glòries during the Llum BCN 2026 Festival
To celebrate the festival, Mirador Torre Glòries is offering a 50% discount on all tickets and will extend its usual opening hours.
The promotion will be available from 6th February at 5:00 pm until the end of the festival on 8th February 2026.
Mirador Torre Glòries opening hours during the festival
- Friday 6th and Saturday 7th: from 10:00 am to midnight (last entry at 11:00 pm).
- Sunday 8th: from 10:00 am to 9:00 pm (last entry at 8:00 pm).
About LLUM BCN
LLUM BCN is Barcelona’s leading festival of light and visual arts, an annual event that transforms public space into a stage for creativity and innovation. Since its first edition, the festival has reinforced its commitment to making culture accessible to everyone, offering free artistic installations that explore the endless creative possibilities of light.
With a programme that brings together contemporary art, design, architecture, scenography and digital arts, LLUM BCN features both national and international artists and creators, as well as university schools of design, art and architecture from across the city. The festival has become a unique platform for reinterpreting urban space through light installations that push the boundaries of visual perception and urban storytelling.
Organised by the Barcelona Institute of Culture (ICUB), LLUM BCN champions sustainable mobility, accessibility and community participation, turning the streets of Barcelona into a meeting point between creativity, technology and civic life.
More information: www.llumbcn.com
