The Department of Heritage conditions The Source of the Place, a resource of great patrimonial and historical interest located in the place from where the municipality of Granadilla de Abona was born. The work being carried out consists of improving and recovering this emblem of the town, of the region “and of the aboriginal way of life and of the settlement of the conquerors in the south of the island, says the area councilor, Fredi Oramas.
Through this action, the aim is to adapt and maintain this space to preserve “a unique asset from a cultural, historical and patrimonial point of view.” The works are executed through an agreement. The mayor announces that the forecast includes improving the road that connects this space with the Santa Lucía area. In fact, Oramas points out that the location and exploitation of La Fuente del Lugar “explains the birth of the Caserío on La Fuente, as well as the construction of the hermitage of St. Lucia and the Historic Village of Granadilla de Abona.
Between the urban center of the municipality and the center of Vicácaro is the Barranco de La Fuente, a natural accident where La Fuente del Lugar is located and the space “from which Granadilla sprouted”, as reflected in the information poster of this site that illustrates a everyday scene of the first half of the twentieth century.
The local government maintains that La Fuente has a high cultural value, together with the Caserío on La Fuente, declared a Site of Cultural Interest on April 23, 2015, and whose name is due to this natural source of water, once a very crowded place . “Until the construction of the Canal del Sur, in 1945, this area gave many generations to drink,” says Oramas, who explains that “in the southern desert of that time, the site was decisive for the emergence of Granadilla.” The population was supplied with water in this place, the women being in charge of carrying it in barrels and jars to their homes, in addition to being a meeting place, meeting place and passing through for many muleteers who made the North-South route, who traveled over there to rest and give water to their animals.
