There was some fear that the sculpture of Father Anchieta, exposed to the lagoon weather and pollution from cars, could suffer some kind of damage when being lifted from the center of the roundabout to which it gives its name. However, the transfer of the image to the gardens of the central campus of the University of La Laguna (ULL) It was done without any mishap.
Around ten o’clock at night, work began with a crane that lifted it to the platform that would take it to its current location, inside a metal frame to avoid any type of damage. Yesterday morning, the sculpture was already in its new location, and in which it will remain for about a year, the same time that the Cabildo estimates that it will take to complete the work that has forced its transfer, that of burying the TF-24 as it passes through the roundabout, and the construction of a high-rise pedestrian walkway. When I finish, the monument to Father Anchieta it will return to its original location.
“Emotion” in the transfer of the monument to Father Anchieta
The president of the Cabildo, Pedro Martín, congratulated himself because the transfer of the seven tons of sculpture was carried out normally and advanced that “we trust that in a year a work will be completed that will provide greater safety to pedestrians and help the decongestion of the traffic of the TF-5”. For the mayor of La Laguna, Luis Yeray Gutiérrez, Tuesday night was “exciting”, not only because of the respect and devotion of the lagoon people to Father Anchieta, but also because “justice is done with an environment, a complicated place in which a long-awaited work begins in one of the black spots at the entrances of the city”.
