The Insular Directorate of Planning of the Territory and Historical Heritage requires the City Council of San Miguel de Abona “the restitution of the previous state» of the property that houses the Municipal Library, a Asset of Cultural Interest (BIC). The municipal government anchored a marquee and the Cabildo orders the Consistory to eliminate “the traces” left by its subsequent removal, “both on the walls and on the pavement, proceeding to paint the facade in the currently existing color.”
Although the local government assured the Plenary that the marquee “was a decorative element” used for the Day of the Canary Islands, in Historical Heritage “there is no request for authorization” to place it or the intervention. It was a query from the PP that prompted an eye inspection by the Cabildo. Once removed, an action that “depended on the availability of maintenance services” occurred, the local government told the Plenary.
The City Hall of San Miguel de Abona placed the canopy on the left door, anchored to the wall and the cobblestone floor of a building over 200 years old, which was the first seat of the City Council, after the legal segregation of the municipality of Vilaflor (1798) and until December 31, 1944.
The island councilor of the Popular Party and former mayor of San Miguel, Valentín González, considers it “unheard of that the City Council fails to comply with the Law of Cultural Heritage of the Canary Islands while preparing the Special Plan for the Historical Heritage of San Miguel”. The councilor, María José Tacoronte, announces that she will “ask for political responsibilities.”