SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE, June 24 (EUROPA PRESS) –
Puerto de la Cruz has hosted today, Saturday, the ancestral ritual of the Baño de las Cabras, in which more than 400 goats have participated, hand in hand with their goatherds, who have met at the fishing pier to comply with a rite that every morning from San Juan attracts so much attention among residents and visitors in the tourist city.
From early in the morning, the historic dock and its surroundings are a bustle of people eager to contemplate the herds of goats that come from all over the northern region of Tenerife and that hand in hand with the Cultural Association of Friends of Baño de Las Cabras en el Mar, with its president Amílcar Fariña at the helm, also meet to celebrate other traditions such as intelligence games with Professor José Manuel Espinel or the exhibition of the game of Palo with the Auchón Guanil Cultural Association.
“The Bath of Goats in the Sea is only love and tradition that must be known and spread so that it continues with us forever, with the affection towards our legacy that we assert to feel proud of what has been, is and will be Puerto de la Cruz”, said the mayor of Puerto de la Cruz, Marco González, who received the goats at the foot of the dock.
El Baño de las Cabras en el Mar promoted at the time by the well-remembered Chucho Dorta and recovered by the research work and support of the professor and winner of the Canarias Award Manuel Lorenzo Perera, is consolidated within the acts of the San Juan festivities that throughout the week has been celebrated by the city to continue sharing the ancestral traditions that are part of the cultural heritage of the city.
