The plates are being published in different batches and the local government (CC) announces that “when there is already a significant number of publicationsYes, the intention of the consistory is to be able to make an exhibition that brings this information closer to the people». At the moment, all are available through the corporate website (www.laorotava.es).
At the beginning of the year, the City Council disclosed the life and work of the neoclassical sculptor Fernando Estévez de Salas; the baroque painter Cristóbal Hernández de Quintana; the educator Elisa González de Chaves, founder of the first school for deaf-mutes in the Canary Islands; Nieves Lugo, the first Canarian filmmaker; the sculptor and image maker Ezequiel de León; the artist Antonio Otazzo, or the writer and Canarias Literature Prize Cecilia Domínguez, among other illustrious villagers.
La Orotava now gives the opportunity to better know, or discover, the scientist Irene González Hernández (La Orotava, 1969-Arizona, 2014), who specialized in space weather and solar cycles, and her publications contributed to the advancement of the astrophysics worldwide; Felipe Machado (La Orotava, 1836-1930) a politician, musician and painter who brought the Corpus Christi carpet to the Town Hall square for the first time; the carpenter Pedro Hernández Méndez (La Orotava, 1915-1976), who contributed unusual artistic techniques to ephemeral art; the painter Jesús Oramas (La Orotava, 1933-Belgium, 2017), praised even by Salvador Dalí; the historian Alfonso Trujillo (La Orotava, 1932-1979), and the anthropologist and teacher Fernando Estévez (La Orotava, 1953-Santa Cruz, 2016).
