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Marta Ramoneda for the International Herald Tribune.

Statues used at the publicly financed Cuidad de la Luz movie studio in Alicante.

ALICANTE, Spain — In headier times, Ciudad de la Luz was envisioned as a mega-movie studio “where fairy tales are made real.” Its state-of-the-art wave-making machines could whip up a tsunami-style disaster in an enormous water tank facing the Mediterranean Sea, like a Hollywood on the Spanish Riviera. via NYTimes