The more than 225,000 inhabitants of the municipalities in the north of Tenerife They will finally have a place to cremate their dead. The mayor of Los Realejos, Adolfo González (PP)has just announced at the meeting of mayors of the La Orotava Valleyorganized this Monday, February 6 by Fepecothat its city council has just granted a license for the North to have a regional funeral home equipped with five wake rooms, a crematorium, a chapel, a cafeteria and 130 parking spaces in the higueritawhich will prevent the inhabitants of this part of the island from having to travel to the metropolitan area to cremate their loved ones.
This necessary infrastructure, for which we have been waiting for more than 20 yearswill be built by private initiative in the municipality will The Realejoswhere he island council is also working on a new connection with the TF-5 in the area of La Higuerita, which would serve as quick access to this new funeral home and the La Gañanía industrial estate.
The Realejero City Council has granted a license to a private initiative that ends a historical lack
None of the 15 municipalities in the North have a crematorium, despite the fact that since 2003 there has been talk of the construction of a modern funeral home that has a crematorium in municipalities like Puerto de la Cruz, La Orotava, Icod de los Vinos or Tacoronte. Until now no project had materialized with a license.
Currently, in order to cremate a deceased in the North zone, it is necessary to travel to practically 77 kilometers from Buenavista or more than 30 kilometers from the Valley of La Orotava.
According to the National Association of Funeral Services, the cremation rate is above 38% in Spain and it is estimated that by 2025 this figure will rise to 60%. This change in trend has an added difficulty in the north of Tenerife: the inconvenience and inconvenience that travel to the metropolitan area for cremation entails for relatives and friends of the deceased. In January 2019, the inhabitants of the South of the Island stopped having this problemafter the Mémora company invested more than one million euros in the first funeral home with a crematorium on that side of the Island.
