SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, May 30. (EUROPE PRESS) –
La Laguna hosts this Saturday the assembly of the Group of World Heritage Cities of Spain (GCPHE), in which the mayors of the fifteen cities that belong to this group recognized by Unesco for their monumental and heritage values participate.
This is the second consecutive year that La Laguna has become the venue for this meeting, after the one held in March 2022, which in addition to having a rotating nature, is also held in the city that holds the presidency of the Group, a circumstance that occurs in this case.
The mayor of La Laguna and president of the GCPHE, Luis Yeray Gutiérrez, has indicated that this will be a very special assembly because, among other things, the program of acts and events organized on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the birth of the Group, in 1993, will be approved. , and whose celebrations will take place from September 17, 2023 to September 17, 2024. “In addition, the assembly will serve to give continuity to the policies in defense of heritage and the promotion of tourism in our cities after the recent electoral process” he added.
The assembly will be preceded on Friday afternoon by the meeting of the Executive Committee, the Group’s governing body, also chaired by Luis Yeray Gutiérrez, and which includes the mayor of Segovia and the mayors of Santiago de Compostela, Tarragona and Salamanca, and in which the main issues to be discussed on Saturday by the representatives of the fifteen cities will be addressed. Friday’s day will be completed with a concert at 7:00 p.m. in the hermitage of San Miguel, which will be attended by delegations from the cities.
The concert of the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía, which was scheduled in the Cathedral of La Laguna within the framework of the acts of this assembly, has finally been postponed until next autumn.
On Saturday morning, the customary family photo of the mayors will take place at 9:30 a.m. in the Plaza del Adelantado, and from 10:00 a.m., in the Town Hall Plenary Hall, the General Assembly of the Group, where they will ratify , if applicable, the agreements of the Executive Committee and the different issues proposed by the Heritage, Tourism and Culture Information Committees will be addressed, among them, the aforementioned program of events on the occasion of the Group’s 30th anniversary.
The Group of World Heritage Cities of Spain was created in 1993 as a non-profit association (declared by the Ministry of the Interior of Public Utility), with the purpose of acting jointly in the defense of the historical and cultural heritage of these cities and in the maintenance and empowerment of certain forms of life that these historic centers need, carrying out common projects and proposals, establishing policies for the exchange of experiences and facing common problems.
La Laguna became part of the Group in 1999, joining its name to those of Alcalá de Henares, Ávila, Baeza, Cáceres, Córdoba, Cuenca, Ibiza, Mérida, Salamanca, Santiago de Compostela, Segovia, Tarragona, Toledo and Úbeda. La Laguna will continue to preside until July 2024, after the agreement reached at the last assembly held in Córdoba. In this way, the usual time frame of the presidencies is recovered, which was altered in 2020 due to the pandemic.
BROADCASTING OF THE PROGRAM ‘NO ES UN DÍA CALUQUIERA’, ON RNE
On the occasion of the celebration of the assembly of mayors and mayors, the Radio Nacional de España program ‘It is not an ordinary day’, directed by the journalist Pepa Fernández, will be broadcast from La Laguna on Saturday 3 and Sunday 4 June.
This information, culture and entertainment program will be held from the Chamber Hall of the Teatro Leal, from 07:30 to 12:00, and will be open to the public until the room is full. The program will feature several guests and surprise performances on both days.
