The inauguration of the children’s playground of La Gesta on July 25, in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, one of the largest playgrounds in Tenerife, with some 2,500 square meters and under the theme of this key event in the history of the chicharrera capital , will open its doors next Saturday, July 2.
More than twenty games will coexist in this area, among which are boats, rowboats, swings, slides, climbing nets, bars, hammocks and even a telescope. The elements related to La Gesta that will be represented in this new children’s area are the English ship HMS Theseus, the Fox cutter, five English boats, the Santo Domingo convent, the San Cristóbal castle, La Carnicería beach, the old pier , the Oil ravine, the Plaza de la Iglesia, the Tigre canyon or the Alameda beach.
According to the mayor of the town, José Manuel Bermúdez, this park will be the largest in Tenerife and the largest urban children’s play area in the Canary Islands, “which will invite girls and boys to get to know the Gesta of July 25” . This space received an investment of around 600,000 euros and will be completed just after the Carnival in the street.
It is “a fun way to teach the history of Santa Cruz and one of its most outstanding events,” said Bermúdez, an idea of the former official chronicler of the city, Luis Cola Benítez.
Likewise, Dámaso Arteaga stressed that they have had to overcome “some difficulties that have arisen due to transportation issues, price increases and others.” The mayor clarifies that “the idea that is being carried out in this park is the one that contributed the most rubber surface in its design, the largest extension of shade in the proposal presented and the one that contemplates a capacity of 480 boys and girls, in addition to incorporating the greatest number of elements or attractions for minors”. He concludes by warning that “it is a thematic surface that will review the history of Santa Cruz, but in which modern elements are also incorporated.”
