30th March 2001
The Light of Images starts the promotion campaign at Catalonia International Tourism Fair (S.I.T.C) as a proposal for cultural tourism

· Valencia Authority's Minister of Culture visited the Light of Images Foundation's stand this morning.
· The Light of Images exhibition focuses on the history of the diocese of Segorbe, one of the most ancient in Spain

Barcelona, 30th March 2001.- This morning Generalitat Valenciana (Valencia Authority) Minister of Culture and Education, Manuel Tarancón, accompanied by the Undersecretary of the Valencian Tourism Agency, Roc Gregori, and the mayor of Segorbe, Rafael Calvo, visited the stand for the exhibition of sacred art entitled The Light of Images, for which Segorbe will be the venue from September 2001 to March 2002. The visit was made on the occasion of Catalonia International Tourism Fair, which will be held from 29th March to 1st April 2001 at Barcelona Trade Fair.

The Valencia Community Foundation The Light of Images is starting the promotion campaign for the exhibition of religious art as a proposal for cultural tourism with its own stand at this tourist event. Through the agreement signed with the Valencian Tourism Agency, the Light of Images will promote the exhibition at all the fairs, to consolidate this as a destination in the tour operator circuits.

On the occasion of this exhibition, the Foundation is reclaiming a large number of unknown works which after a long time are revealing their original splendour subsequent to the restoration process that these are being given. This work has been carried out since 1998 by a group of over 100 restorers. The work done to restore the buildings and works of art will make known original works which include the vault and the tondi of the cathedral in Segorbe.

The Light of Images proposes a journey back through time, recovering the history of the diocese by means of painting, sculpture, music and precious metal work as well as other artistic disciplines which reveal the rich history of Segorbe and its diocese. This is in short a way to recover history by means of art.

The exhibition offers a general view of the historical-artistic evolution from the end of the 14th century to the early 19th century -the religious, social and human history of a diocese which formed an entity in its own right, as is vouched for by the nearly 600 works catalogued that will be shown at The Light of Images.

The main venue for the exhibition will be Segorbe cathedral and the architectural spaces of which this consists: the cloister, the Saviour chapel, the chapterhouse, the nave of the church and the choir. Along with the cathedral, other settings used will be Saint Martin and Saint Anne's churches and the Seminary, which have been restored so as to be seen in their greatest splendour.

Music is one of the most important disciplines involved in Segorbe's "Light of Images". The exhibition will be placed in its proper setting with pieces from the see itself, from the collection of sheet music kept at the chapterhouse archive recreating each of the periods illustrated by the exhibition.

Each of the three exhibitions which form The Light of Images project -Segorbe; Orihuela, due to be held in 2002, and Valencia, already held- is something special new and different to the others, but all with a common name and the same concept: exhibiting the history of a diocese through its art.