Do you also handle installation and removal?

Yes: site survey, concept, manufacturing, installation, on-site optical calibration, support throughout the season and removal.

Christmas lighting for squares, monuments and streets

Q: Is the 3D render really free?

Yes. The render is how we start a project: it shows the result before you spend anything. No cost and no commitment.

Q: What do you need from me?

A frontal, well-exposed photo of the site, the exact address, the occasion and an indicative budget range.

Q: How much does a Christmas lighting project cost?

Ranges start at 5,000–10,000 € for sites within 50 km of Costa Masnaga and rise with scale, distance and system complexity.

Before / after

The same place, two different evenings.

Every render starts from a real photograph of the site. Geometry, proportions, framing and surroundings stay identical: only the light changes. That is what makes the preview usable as the basis of a project rather than as an illustration.

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The square at night, before the lighting intervention

The same square with Christmas projections mapped onto the façades and a carpet of light on the ground

Before After

Historic square with loggia and civic building

Projections mapped onto the façade surfaces, a light texture across the paving, the tower treated as the dominant element. The sky stays dark.

Project render

Square with church at night, before the lighting intervention

The same square with narrative scenes projected on the side fronts and a warm wash on the church

Before After

Square with church and arcaded fronts

Narrative scenes on the side fronts, a warm wash on the central body, a hierarchy built in three levels: bell tower, façade, wings.

Project render

The offer

The photorealistic 3D render is free.

Deciding on a lighting project from a list of projectors is hard for anyone: for a mayor, for a shopping centre director, for an event manager. So the first step is not a quote, it is an image of your own site, lit.

What you get

Free~~no commitment~~

One high-resolution photorealistic render of your site, generated from your own photo
Two scene states: full intensity and a restrained version, to see how much light is actually needed
Technical note: products, optics and fixture positions assumed to achieve that effect
Feasibility check and a coherent budget range, before any offer
Delivered within 72 working hours, as PDF and images ready to share with a council or a board
Your photos stay yours: used only for the render, never published without consent

Request the render of your site

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How it works

You send us a photo

A single frontal, well-exposed image of the site, even taken on a phone. The quality of that shot is the first lever of realism: avoid oblique, crowded or backlit pictures.
We read the place

Type, materials, volumes, context, constraints. The lighting approach comes from there, not from a catalogue: a stone façade and a snowy wood are not treated the same way.
We build the light onto the photo

Structure, proportions and framing stay identical. Only the lighting changes, and every effect is anchored to a real product from our range.
We deliver it, and we talk

Render, technical note and budget range. If the project convinces you, we move to a site survey and a detailed proposal. If it does not, the image is yours at no cost.

Gallery

Project renders and installations.

A selection of renders produced over recent weeks for squares, civic buildings, tree-lined streets and natural paths. They are here to show the level of realism and the lighting language: the projects they belong to are not identified, out of respect for the clients.

Historic square with Christmas projections mapped onto façades and loggia — *Square · historic centre*Projections mapped onto the façades and a light texture on the ground

Civic building with tower lit in scenographic blue with projected snowflakes — *Civic building · tower*Scenographic blue and snow projected onto the masonry

Civic building with tower lit in red and gold — *Civic building · tower*Red and gold variant of the same subject

Square with lit church and narrative scenes projected on the side fronts — *Square · church and wings*Narrative scenes on the side fronts, warm wash on the central body

Historic square lit in a restrained version, with fewer surfaces lit — *Square · going dark*The same system in a restrained state, for the rest of the season

Tree-lined street with a luminous backdrop and a carpet of light on the ground — *Tree-lined street*A luminous backdrop closing the street and grazing textures on the ground

Tree-lined street with trees lit in two colours and projections on the road — *Tree-lined street*Two-colour treatment of the trees and projections on the road surface

Snowy wood with snowflakes projected onto the conifers — *Wood · clearing*Snowflakes projected onto the conifers, with no fixture in sight

Snowy pedestrian path with light projections on the trees — *Pedestrian path*Luminous markers that accompany the walk

Snowy undergrowth with light textures projected on the ground — *Trees · undergrowth*Warm light textures projected onto the snow

Historic masonry lit in blue with projected snowflakes, built project — *Built project*Projection on historic masonry, Christmas installation

Images marked as project render are previews produced for ongoing proposals and do not represent installations already built.

Where we work

Every place asks for a different light.

There is no standard Christmas package, because there are no two identical squares. Surfaces, distances, power supply points, constraints and audiences all change: the project is built around them.

01

Squares and historic centres

Where a town gathers. Projections mapped onto the fronts, textures on the paving, one dominant element holding the space together.

02

Monuments and façades

Grazing light that reveals volumes, rustication and cornices. The architecture stays the protagonist; decoration does not cover it.

03

Streets, arcades and trees

Routes read in movement: backdrops closing the street, carpets of light, trees treated as stage wings rather than as decoration.

04

Civic buildings and towers

The sign recognisable from a distance. Tower in the lead, façade telling the story, context following: hierarchy in three levels.

05

Retail and shopping centres

Entrances, fronts and car parks. Systems sized for long cycles, with programmed scenes and content that can change year on year.

06

Parks, woods and paths

Natural areas where light must be contained: controlled downward beams, no spill toward the sky, attention to wildlife.

Method

Light is not added: it is designed.

We manufacture professional projectors and design the systems that use them. That lets us start from the effect a place needs and work back to the optic that produces it, custom if necessary, instead of fitting the project to a catalogue.

Talk to a lighting designer

Four principles, always the same

Dark sceneChristmas projections live in darkness. If the functional white lighting stays on, the image fades: deciding what to switch off is part of the design.
Hierarchyone element dominates, one tells the story, one accompanies. Lighting everything at the same intensity flattens the depth of a space.
Measurethe building must not end up brighter than its surroundings. The right amount of light is the amount needed, not the amount available.
Motivated colourcolour and projections are used because the event is temporary. On permanent architecture we stay with whites, within colour temperatures coherent with the material.

The project path

brief → site survey → concept and render → optical calibration → manufacturing → installation → support through the season → removal

Built projects

Christmas, and not only Christmas.

Some of the places we have worked in. Our Christmas practice comes out of monumental and architectural lighting: the same craft applied to a season.

Masonry of a historic castle lit in blue with projected snowflakes — Christmas projection on historic masonry: scenographic blue, snowflakes mapped onto the surface, the sky left dark.

Trieste, IT

Castello di San Giusto

Christmas projection on the historic complex, with scenes alternating through the evening.

Rainbow I · Black Devil 300

Alessandria, IT

Christmas in the city

Christmas lighting spread across the urban centre, between squares and retail streets.

EYE 200 · Black Devil · eColor40

Mesero (MI), IT

Square and church

A village-scale intervention: one main front, one square, one essential system.

Black Devil Easy / 300 · EYE 200

Cernobbio (CO), IT

Città dei Balocchi

Town centre and lakefront for one of the historic Christmas events on Lake Como.

Rainbow III · eColor40 · NOVA

Genoa, IT

Lighting for Genova

Squares and street furniture with optics developed specifically for the context.

Custom 2700K lens · eColor40 RGB

Settimo Torinese, IT

Town hall and tower

Civic building and tower as an urban landmark, with programmed dynamic scenes.

RGBW LED · ESA2 / ESA Pro

At the largest scale

The same technology works over extraordinary distances: Tribute in Light in New York, where Spacecannon supplied the Xenon technology behind the two vertical beams, and the National Medal of Honor Museum in Arlington, Texas, with nine 7,000 W Xenon projectors and a beam legible beyond 500 metres. These are collective projects, authored by international lighting design studios: our part is the machine that produces that light.

Frequently asked

What people ask before we start.

Is the 3D render really free?

Yes, with nothing attached. It is how we prefer to begin: showing the result before you spend anything, and giving you an image you can take to a council, a committee or a board. If the project does not go ahead, the render is still yours.

What do you need from me?

A photo of the site, the exact address, the occasion and an indicative budget range. The photo matters more than everything else: frontal, well exposed, no crowd in the foreground. If you have nothing suitable, we will tell you how to take it in two minutes on a phone.

How long does it take?

72 working hours from a complete brief with a usable photo. During the October–November peak the queue can stretch: an early brief means more room for the project.

Is the render realistic, or an embellished image?

The rule is complete fidelity to the original: only the light changes. Structure, geometry, framing and surroundings stay as they are in your photo, with no added elements and no effects overlaid on the image. Every effect you see is anchored to a real projector from our range, so the render can become the basis of an actual quote.

How much does a Christmas lighting project cost?

It depends on scale, the number of surfaces, system complexity and distance. The ranges we work with, and that you will find in the form, start at 5,000–10,000 € for sites within 50 km of our premises and go beyond 50,000 € for extensive urban projects.

Indicating a range commits you to nothing: it lets us tell you straight away whether what you have in mind is feasible with those resources, or propose a more concentrated version that still works.

Do you also handle installation, operation and removal?

Yes. Site survey, concept, manufacturing of the fixtures, installation, on-site optical calibration, support throughout the switch-on period and removal. On-site calibration is the part no render can replace: that is where the project becomes what you saw.

How are consumption, safety and glare handled?

With professional LED projectors, programmable scene cycles and DMX control, which allow intensity to be reduced late at night or alternated with restrained states. In design we work with oriented beams and selected optics to avoid glare toward roads and pedestrians and to limit spill toward the sky. Actual power draw for the proposed system is stated in the technical note.

Do you work with municipalities, public bodies and tenders?

Yes, and it is a significant part of our work. We can provide the technical material needed to prepare a specification, product photometrics, positioning layouts and lighting reports. Do mention in the form if a tender is under way or a specification has to be drafted.

What do you do with my photos and my data?

The photos you send are used to produce the render and stay within the project: we do not publish them or use them in communication without your written consent. Contact details are used to answer your request and, only if you allow it, to send you updates on our projects. You can withdraw consent at any time.

Your historic centre, as it will look on switch-on night.