With a population of 3,500 inhabitants and an investment of 1,153,522 euros, the aron town of Las Rosas has enjoyed an urban park since yesterday which occupies 9,000 square meters. It has highly demanded services, highlighting the inclusive children’s area for minors with reduced mobility, a complete sports and calisthenics circuit, as well as an area for pets and another for the elderly, with a petanque court and bio-healthy equipment.
The Las Rosas urban park is divided into four zones, which start from a central circular space called El Mirador: sector 1, dedicated to physical activity, with areas for calisthenics and a running circuit; Sector 2 is an inclusive playground, with playgrounds adapted for children with functional diversity, the second in the municipality, since in October 2018 the one in Playa de Las Américas opened, the first inclusive children’s park in the Canary Islands; Sector 3 focuses on the elderly, with a petanque court with several lanes and apparatus for bio-healthy physical exercises, while Sector 4 has a dog park, with elements that allow pets to exercise. In each sector there are areas enabled for users to rest, with benches and pergolas for shade.
The Mirador is also equipped with pergolas, shade and vegetation. In addition, it has a perimeter fence and the municipal government establishes opening hours (from 7:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m.) “to avoid possible acts of vandalism that could damage it.” In fact, this urban park occupies a plot that was converted into a park for Las Rosas several years ago, although with a shortage of urban furniture, without lighting, games or other spaces, in such a way that it was in a high state of abandonment.
Las Rosas incorporates the fifth large urban park of these characteristics into the municipal network of the current mandate, after proceeding to reform that of La Garañaña, in Costa del Silencio; La Trujilla or Luis Diego Cuscoy, in Cabo Blanco; and the Paulino Suances, Las Galletas and El Fraile squares.
Yesterday, the Arona City Council celebrated the commissioning of the Las Rosas urban park together with residents of the neighborhood, with an inauguration that began with a batucada offered by the users of the El Mojón Functional Diversity Center. The mayor, José Julián Mena, accompanied by members of the corporation and the park’s architect, Carlos Garrone Merlo, from the Domus Architecture Workshop, unveiled an allusive plaque with the inscription “Caring for our park is giving life to our community.”
In his inaugural speech, the mayor, José Julián Mena, recognized that It is a historical claim and stressed that the park is “a great meeting place at a time when, finally, we can begin to meet and see each other.” At the time, he conveyed to the residents of Las Rosas the need for us to “take care of it and enjoy it.”
