Tegueste give up this edition of your pilgrimage in honor of San Marcos Evangelist due to organizational reasons. The City Council specifies that the lack of time to prepare it made them opt for an alternative program, in which the carts will be exhibited in the street. «Citizen safety, both for neighbors and visitors, comes first and, being this party one of the most massive in Tenerifeto the date on which it was arranged by the Canary Islands Government the elimination of the restrictive sanitary measures, we did not have material time to organize the logistics for that event with the security forces and bodies, ”they explained from the Consistory.
“The Department of Fiestas has been working for months on the preparations for the festivities in honor of Saint Mark the Evangelist this year,” they noted. “There have been months of uncertainty, meetings with participating groups, security forces, local companies… At the same time, the regulations regarding public acts have been undergoing changes and the different planned events have been modified and adapted accordingly” , they added.
This being the case, what they have planned for the last Sunday in April, when this tribute to San Marcos and costumbrismo is traditionally celebrated, is the exhibition of carts, cars and boats in the street. “The different acts will be distributed in order to avoid large crowds, so that visitors will be the ones who move between points of interest,” they specified.
This occurs after, as has happened with most festivities, the last two editions of the San Marcos pilgrimage have been conditioned by the coronavirus. In particular, those two quotes were limited to balconies and private homes, thus Teguesteros and folklore lovers have been waiting for three years to be able to rediscover the conventional version of this celebration.
