The plenary session of Town Hall of Puerto de la Cruz approved this Monday the making available to the Ministry of Tourism of the Government of the Canary Islands of the lands contemplated for the execution of the first phase of the project known as the Parque Litoral de Punta Brava, which provides for various improvements between Punta Brava beach and Tegueste street. This first stage will feature an investment close to 400,000 euros.
The Porto government spokesman, David hernandez (Portuense Citizen Assembly), clarified that “it is only about two actions located in the viewpoint next to the hermitage of the Holy Cross and in the area of access to Garden Beach, which will consist of conditioning and recovery works for traffic easements and access to the sea, and the replacement of part of the sanitation network, which causes major environmental impacts that we try to mitigate with this action ”.
“They will be works for the conditioning and recovery of transit easements and access to the sea, and for the replacement of part of the sanitation network.”
This first phase is framed within a comprehensive project for the regeneration of the coastline in the Punta Brava neighborhood, which includes different actions that will be subject to the participation and consultation of the citizens of Porto. The budget for this phase, which is entirely in charge of the General Directorate of Tourist Infrastructures, amounts to 375,574.45 euros.
Alfred Diston
In another of the items on the agenda of the plenary session, an agreement was reached unanimously on an institutional motion to begin the record of recognition of Honors and Distinctions for Alfred Diston, an outstanding figure for his importance for the culture of the Canary Islands, with valuable contributions to a great variety of disciplines, being especially relevant those related to the knowledge of the traditional costumes of the Canaries and the Canarian customs of his time. Diston was a British merchant and polygraph established in Puerto de la Cruz between 1810 and 1861 and, therefore, spent practically his entire adult life in the city. His illustrated manuscripts, his notebooks and his watercolors and drawings represent a valuable documentary source to know many aspects of society and the natural environment not only of the dawn of our city, but of Tenerife, and the rest of the Canary Islands, during the first half of the 19th century. Diston, was born in Lowestoft, Suffolk county, in England, on February 8, 1793 and died in Puerto de la Cruz on April 2, 1861.
