The Festivities of the Christ of Tacoronte they return to normality three years later with more than 80 religious, cultural, recreational, institutional and sporting events distributed throughout the month of September. The big day of the festivities will be Sunday the 25th, a day in which faith through Christ, the arrival of the pilgrims and the expected procession will be completed with the XXXVIII Craft Faira First National Women’s Basketball Tournament and the Cantadores show.
The mayor of Tacoronte, Jose Daniel Diaz (NC)and the Councilor for Culture, Commerce and Festivals, Sandra Left (PSOE)were in charge of presenting this Wednesday, August 31, 2022, the festive program, which It is distributed by mail so that all the neighbors can have a copy in hand. Between September 1 and October 2, Tacoronte it will host more than thirty festive events and as many religious ones; 17 sports appointments; eight exhibitions; four performing arts performances, and seven book presentations.
For Izquierdo, it will be “the parties of the reunion in the street, between tacoronteros and tacoronteras and with the Christ in procession.” For Díaz, “these are long-awaited festivities of Christ because we are going to meet again after the pandemic for the first time without restrictions. I know that our neighbors and neighbors have longed for our taverns and our festivals, the joy of festivals without restrictions and tasting our traditional products; We trust that expectations will be met.
The reading of the proclamation will be this Sunday, September 4 and will be in charge of the photographer and researcher Enrique Acosta Dorta. That Sunday day is dedicated to nougat and wine from the wineries of the Tacoronte-Acentejo Denomination of Origin. On Wednesday the 9th, the Youth concert will be organized, with the participation of Aarón, Ray Castellano, Sandra del Castillo, Gürin and Javyh. The music will continue in later days with the Cachalote Festival, the Festival of Emerging Bands and Gastro & Music Experience.
Carlos Baute will perform on September 30 with Bombai and Renzzo ‘El Selector’ at the Dial Concert
On September 11 he will surrender a tribute to the nougat maker Maribel López, recently deceased. On Wednesday 14, the Plaza del Cristo will host the White Party. I go to Cuba from Cuba I come. The horse ring race is recovered, on Saturday, September 17, on the site next to the IES Óscar Domínguez. The Grape Harvest Festival will be on Friday, September 23, and on Saturday 24 the first Encounter of Traditional Dances of Tenerifewith 13 flower and ribbon dance groups from different municipalities.
Wednesdays 21 and 28 are dedicated to the artists, groups and bands of Tacorontewith the acts Our music, our art, focused on musical traditions. On the same day, the 28th, the tasting menu will consist of “wine and mussel sandwiches”, within the act Stories with our peoplewhich offers different musical and ethnographic interpretations of the municipality.
Friday the 30th is reserved for the Dial Concert, which has Charles Baute as a star performance, preceded by Bombai and followed by DJ Renzzo The Chooser.
The religious acts include the celebration of various masses in the Santuario del Cristo, which will take place at 6:00 or 6:30 p.m., depending on the day, and also on Sunday mornings. In addition, on the 17th, 18th, 24th and 25th the traditional processions of the Holy Christ for their usual routes.
