The city of Fraga This Saturday has lived a day that will be marked in its history. The old Florida cinema, closed since 2008, has reopened its doors completely transformed into a modern and versatile auditorium. More than 600 people have filled the new Municipal Auditorium Sala Florida in an inaugural act loaded with emotion, culture and memory.
At 18.00 the curtain of the renewed space opened, with the presence of Mayor Ignacio Gramún, the Minister of Education, Culture and sport of the Government of Aragon, Tomasa Hernández, and institutional representatives of all levels. The Arnau family (transferor of the premises for 65 years), companies participating in the work and many neighbors eager to recover a place that was the cultural heart of Fraga and the bass Cinca for decades have also attended.
The reopening has included an invisible magician performance, the first artist to take the stage after the rehabilitation of the building, whose works began just a year ago. The project has been a total investment of 2.7 million euros, of which 724,000 come from European funds Next Generation.
During the act, the Gramún Mayor has stressed that the recovery of the Florida Sala means “a qualitative and quantitative leap for culture in Fraga.” It has also claimed the importance of working together so that the city “remains one of the main powers of Aragon.”
The Minister Tomasa Hernández has congratulated the neighbors: “You are going to have a first -class cultural infrastructure.” He stressed that “without spaces where we are, cultural rights are not possible,” reaffirming the autonomous government’s commitment to include Fraga in large cultural circuits.
For its part, the Councilor for Urban Planning, Esther Rubio, has defended that this work not only rehabilitates a building, but also recovers the collective memory of the city: “reopening this cinema is to get excited, reflect and share.”
The new Florida Sala Auditorium is not just an infrastructure: it is a commitment to revitalize the historical center of Fraga and boost the cultural and social life of the municipality. This was explained by Rubio, who has framed the project in a broader strategy to make Fraga a city “more cohesive, habitable and with opportunities for all.”
Juan Arnau, on behalf of the transferor family, has excited the public to remember that “culture, when it becomes public and accessible good, transforms us and connects us.” And he concluded: “Each restored brick is projected living memory to the future.”
