Visitors to the walled enclosure of the Citadel of Roses and the castle of the Trinitat will be able to travel back to the year 2500 BC. thanks to virtual reality, which will allow them to participate in a burial from the Neolithic era, observe what the activity was like in an old Roman salting factory or how people lived in the Greek neighborhood of ancient Rhode.
The initiative, which will allow tourists to walk through reconstructed monuments and interact with the characters of each era and, according to the Consistory, will be another attraction of cultural tourism in Roses.
Using augmented reality glasses, the visitor will be able to interact on-site with 3D content and sounds, 360-degree filming, virtual settings and metahuman characters. Among other things, you will be able to witness the arrival of the Turkish galleys that attacked Roses, the departure of goods from the medieval port or how the salting process was carried out in a Roman factory.
You will also be able to visit settings that refer to episodes in more recent history, such as the bunkers that were built at the end of the Civil War to prevent a possible Allied invasion of the Pyrenean axis during World War II.
Taking advantage of the multiple possibilities offered by the interactive scenarios, the project includes the gamification of itineraries with around twenty games and enigmas, which will allow the visitor to delve into different periods and historical episodes since the settlement of the first settlers in the municipality.
Carrying ritual wax to a Neolithic burial, buying a ceramic cup in the Greek colony of Rhode (425 BC), preparing garo, looking for a monk from the monastery of Santa Maria (1400), finding the plan of the fortification of the Citadel of the engineer Gian Battista Calvi (1570) or locating the Triumphant ship, sunk in the gulf in 1795 are some of the many challenges that arise.
The proposal also allows you to see the arrival of the tuna from the Torre de la Trinitat (1500), look for the organ of the castle of the Trinitat (1660), a building from the 16th century, or find the officer Lord Cochrane among the troops of the Royal Navy (1808). The figure of this British sailor was key in defending the castle of La Trinitat until a blast forced him to withdraw.
According to the City Council, with this project Roses becomes a “pioneer” in applying virtual reality to all of its local heritage. The initiative, which has had a cost of around 351,000 euros, has been 50% financed by the Feder funds; 25% by the Girona Provincial Council and the rest by the Roses City Council.
The Councilor for Urbanism and Historical Cultural Heritage of Roses, Sílvia Ripoll, points out that the project “gives added value to our heritage, since visits, apart from being physical, can now also be virtual”. “We are pioneers in having all our history and cultural and historical heritage virtualized,” she underlines.
