Villa de Tegueste will celebrate next September 9, starting at 9:30 p.m., the celebration of La Librea, a theatrical function declared a Site of Cultural Interest (BIC) that takes place every four years and that makes the municipality a focus attraction of spectators and visitors.
The mayor of Tegueste, Ana Rosa Mena, expresses through a press release that the origin of this “Librea dates back to the year 1600 and it is a very important tradition for Tegueste, which this year brings together some 200 participants.”
The Councilor for Fiestas, Eladia López, “values the involvement of neighbors, associations and other groups that make a great effort to carry out the staging and representation”, collects the press release sent by the Teguester Consistory. “Our square will dress up to host, like every four years, La Librea, within the framework of the Los Remedios festivities,” says the head of the Tegueste Festival area.
The performance will gather hundreds of neighbors dressed in the corresponding typical costumes of the time in the Plaza de San Marcos, “between folkloric groups, extras and actors, under the direction of Telesforo Rodríguez, who will value, through their staging, the customs of the town and its idiosyncrasy, combining it with a great spectacle of lights and sound in the famous battle».
The Tegueste Livery consists of several fundamental elements: the militia, the four Tegueste ships and the Dance of the Flowers, which revolve around the procession of Our Lady of Los Remedios, patron saint and honorary mayor of Tegueste. This custom has the status of an Asset of Cultural Interest (BIC), dates back to the 17th century and has its origins in various traditions, “of gratitude to the patron saints for ridding the town of the plague or pirate attacks… », collects the web page tenerife.com, of Tourism of Tenerife. La Librea has become the big day of the Los Remedios festivities.
