Linea Light Group is an Italian company providing completely custom-made lighting solutions and capable of meeting every need and design requirement. The company, a pioneer in LED technology, offers 100% Italian quality. Today Linea Light Group is a company with a strong international presence, involved in several lighting projects such as Airports, Mosques, Headquaters and more. It has also entered the artistic and cultural heritage scene.
In fact, in the most recent project it has been involved in the architectural lighting of two important strongholds located in Albania, specifically in Rruga Kala, Kruge, for the Croia Castle and in the city of Shkodra for the Rozafa Castle. In both cases the intervention of the designer Fulvio Baldeschi is recognized at the head of the project.
 
For the first project the city of Croia was selected, the ancient Albanian capital and symbol of resistance against the invasions of the Ottomans and birthplace of the national hero Giorgio Castriota Skanderbeg. Its name seems to derive from the word krua which means source in relation to the presence of numerous sources of fresh water coming down from the surrounding mountains.
From a geographical point of view, Croia is part of central Albania and extends at the foot of the western slope of the homonymous mountain. This particular position, meeting point of the roads that connected the whole country, allowed the commercial development and determined its dominant role towards the neighboring territories. Symbol of the city is the Castle, perched on a rocky ridge on the eastern side of the city, built around the fifth-sixth century AD, which still retains the internal structures with the National Museum Skanderbeg, dedicated to the hero and Albanian history, the Ethnographic Museum, the Clock Tower, an ancient watchtower 16 meters high, which offers a breathtaking panoramic view.
 
Equally important is Shkodra, which hosts the second lighting project by Linea Light Group.
The city is the most important in northern Albania, and has always been a border town, subject to Venetian, Slavic and Ottoman influences and dominations. An intersection of cultures still visible today in the traces of Islamic and Catholic, Italian and Turkish architecture that can be found in the monuments, buildings and also in Rozafa Castle, the symbol of Shkodra and the best observation point over the city and its surroundings. Perched on the top of a promontory, wedged between three rivers, the fortress once controlled the entrance to the city. It was built by the Illyrians and subsequently enlarged over the years by the Venetians and then by the Ottomans, with interventions still visible today. Its name is linked to the legend of the young Rozafa, walled up alive inside, as an offering to the gods.
 
The Castle of Croia, compared to the Rozafa's one, is actually a fortification that keeps inside its walls not only restaurants and private houses but also important iconographic elements, first of all the Tower. The lighting project studied by lighting designer Fulvio Baldeschi had as its objective the valorization of these most attractive elements, establishing a sort of "hierarchy of light" that saw the realization of lighting where it was not foreseen (as in the case of the Tower itself), the rebalancing of the beams of light where they were too much present (as in the case of the Museum) and finally, the accentuation of areas such as the entrance, characterized by a Venetian door and a series of arches. Even the city walls, rather irregular and frayed, have been the subject of a careful study of light and shadow to give depth and avoid the effect of flattening.
 
The other products that were the protagonists of the second intervention at the Rozafa castle in Shkodra are undisputed and of great scenic impact.
We are talking about High-Wired, Envelope, Xenia. The linear profile High Wired, has allowed to obtain a counter light playing once again with shadows. The lighting of the entrance area is provided by Envelope, the versatile walkway marker used here in a single-emission version, and by Xenia, the family of fixtures with multiple configuration possibilities that can be adapted to any lighting requirement, used here specifically to illuminate the barbican entrance.
Finally, it should be pointed out that most of the fixtures have been fitted with a protective grid to prevent vandalism and with an external Bluetooth dimmer with Casambi protocol, the advanced professional system designed for wireless lighting management which, compared to the Dali network and thanks to Bluetooth technology, allows for more effective programming in relation to the length of the walls.