Is it possible to investigate the cosmos from the inside of a mountain? The Canfranc Underground Laboratory is the only underground facility, and one of the few in the world, dedicated to astroparticle physics and research in underground physics. Due to its extension and characteristics, it is the second European underground laboratory after the Gran Sasso laboratory, in Italy.
It is located in a railway tunnel of Canfranc, in the Oscan Pyrenees, and is managed by a consortium composed of the General Administration of the State, the Government of Aragon and the University of Zaragoza.
In its 1250 m2 of facilities, 850 m below the Pyrenean summit of El Tobazo, experiments are carried out in search of dark matter and the study of the nature and properties of the neutrino.At this depth, the mountain rock removes most of the cosmic radiation present on the Earth's surface and allows experiments of maximum sensitivity to be carried out without disturbances.
