He Puerto de la Cruz Town Hall celebrates this year the traditional bonfires inside the San Juan festivities on the coast of the city thanks to its identity character, the result of this ancestral custom that goes back at least to the 18th century, as the renowned German historian and traveler collected in his writings Alexander von Humboldt in 1799.
Along with the bonfires, for yet another year the surroundings of the fishing pier will live one of its most special days of the year with the tradition of Goat Bath in the Sea organized by the Association of Friends that bears the same name and which, together with the Town Hall, celebrates a one of the hallmarks of the municipality that goes back almost a century. They will also be protagonists of this week where memory and traditions mark the agenda of Porto, the traditional enrame de chorros, an ephemeral art exhibition in many corners of the city.
From the Consistory it is reported that they are already working, after the warning of Costas regarding the celebration of the concert last year, to put together a proposal that complies with the application of current regulations that consolidates the guarantee of protection and conservation that the development of an event of these characteristics in a protected area such as Playa Jardín.
It will be early on Saturday the 24th “when summer breaks” as stated in the book La fiesta de San Juan en Puerto de la Cruz by, among others, Professor Manuel J. Lorenzo Perera published in 1987, when the goatherds show this fact of the ancestral popular culture recovered by the ethnographic work and care of the traditions.
The acts of this festivity that has so much to do with the environment, nature, art and tradition begin tomorrow at the Institute of Hispanic Studies of the Canary Islands with the oral narration by Silvia Torrents of The Story of a Guanche Woman to starting at 7:00 p.m. On this day there will also be a projection of the audiovisual The Amazigh, Canarian and Continental Woman by Pablo Deluca, from the Center for Imazighen Studies of the Canary Islands.
The celebration of the summer solstice in the city is also characterized by the ancestral ephemeral art exhibition of the jet enrame, which this year will be eight and which will bring together families, groups and designers from the city who reserve this Thursday to add their talent and creativity to the celebration of this week of traditions.
This year different designers and collectives will be in charge of decorating them, so El Chorro Cuaco will be the work of Amarca; Verart will be in charge of the Cupid’s Jet, the designer Yaiza Trujillo will be in charge of the Las Cabezas jet; Andrés Hernández, the one from Peach; the Mequinez street jet will be designed by the Friends of Ancient Traditions Association; the one in Las Maretas will be run by Juliana Serrano; the jet from the historic fishing pier, Marcos Marrero and María Díaz, and finally the one from Punta Brava will be carried out by the Punta Brava El Veril Cultural Association.
