Cross port celebrates this Tuesday, May 3, 2022, the day of its patron saint, the Holy Crossadorning its more than 130 crosses distributed throughout the municipality and its 30 chapels and, as in 2021, with the new artistic crosseswhich this year will be eight distributed by different nuclei of the tourist town.
These artistic crosses are the work of different groups, companies and people such as Adrian Gonzalez Gonzalez (The Botanist), Green area (The Meadows), the Municipal Gardening Service (Historic Gardens of Martiánez), Juan David Perez (Council Square), Lto Verart Cultural Association (Roundabout Melchor Luz), Joel Mesa (San Antonio), Jonay Diaz (He will see her), Christian Iron (Municipal Market) and Sunday Fernandezon behalf of the Punta Brava – El Veril Cultural Association.
Also, after two years in which this celebration was celebrated in a different way, due to Covid-19the local government (PSOE-ACP) highlights that “the branches of the crosses that distinguish the municipality return to stay with all their spectacularity and beauty.”
The solemn Eucharist in honor of the Holy Cross will be today, starting at 11:00 a.m., and will be broadcast live through the Consistory’s social networks. The traditional procession and the Eucharist at nine in the morning also returns next to the cross of Las Lonjas street, in the spring. In addition, several routes will be organized around the innumerable crosses that are honored in the municipality, including the tour of the artistic crosses that this year will be more than in 2021.
Another novelty of this edition is the publication of the booklet with the history of this celebration, the work of the Porto historian Edward Zaba. With the title of The Devotion to the Holy Madero in Puerto de la Cruzand edited by the City Council itself, “will be a faithful reflection in a rigorous work of months of research and the synthesis of the unpublished work entitled The Cross in the Port, to which is added the creativity of the illustrator Jonás Emanuel. With the text and the illustrations, both authors explain in a didactic and simple way what the Cross represents in the history of this municipality in the north of Tenerife».
