The Department of Culture and Festivals of the Tacoronte City Hall announces the postponement of wizards dance scheduled for this Friday, July 1 until next friday july 8th, “due to the forecast of rain”. This decision is made due to the “logistical impossibility” of relocating the more than one hundred tables that were already designated for the Santa Catalina squarewhere it was planned to celebrate the first wizard ball since 2019. This traditional folkloric and gastronomic meeting is postponed for a week, with the forecast that it can start, if the weather allows it, Friday, July 8 at 9:00 p.m..
Despite the threat of rain for this Friday, for Saturday, July 2, the weather forecasts vary and it seems that they will allow, starting at 8:30 p.m., to celebrate the VIII Sample of Regional Dance and Folklore of Tacoronte, in which students from La Caridad, Agua García, Taifa and the Municipal School of Folklore will participate. In addition, folk groups collaborate between ages and The Chandelierand the children’s workshop of Guarache Dance.
Nor do the forecasts change with respect to the pilgrimage of San Isidrothis Sunday 3. The day begins at 12:00 with a mass sung by guaracheat the end of which the traditional pilgrimage will begin, with the round trip that starts from the Church of Santa Catalina, in the direction of Calvario, where it will turn around at La Alhóndiga to return to the temple. At the end, a popular festival will begin enlivened by the Zone 7 Orchestra.
The mayor of Tacoronte, Jose Daniel Diaz Armas (NC)regrets that the weather conditions the celebration of the festive program, but has expressed his satisfaction with the possibility that the municipality Yes, recover your pilgrimage this Sunday“a celebration that has been going on for more than three decades bringing together neighbors and neighbors”,
“Our municipality invites whoever wants to visit us this Sunday, to share our folklore and the tablecloth of any family, because we are a hospitable people who await you with open hands,” he explained. In his opinion, “after two years of difficulties due to Covid-19which conditioned many aspects not only of the administration, but of our lives and heritage, now is the time to go back and return with enough enthusiasm so that our traditions remain more alive than ever».
The XXXI Pilgrimage of San Isidro Labrador It will be “a unique opportunity, in which you can live a day of coexistence, in which neighbors and visitors will be able to access about twenty carts, as well as the groups and parrandas that participate in it to make this Sunday an unforgettable day”, concludes the Tacorontero mayor, Jose Daniel Diaz.
On June 24, the gala for the election of the older pilgrim was held, to which six candidates presented themselves. was chosen Naiara Lopez de Leonafter a decade without this festive act being organized in Tacoronte.
