The town of taganana tomorrow commemorates the participation of its neighbors in the defense of Tenerife against the attempted invasion of British troops on July 25, 1797. With the act, called Touch of Outburst, there will be a recreation of the Taganana militia that participated actively in the so-called Deed of July 25.
The initiative will begin at 6:00 p.m., in the Las Nieves square, where the Taganana Livery will enter the square to proceed with the raising of the flag while the town’s anthem sounds, in which the new honorary mayor will also be named, that this year it has fallen to Clodoaldo Manuel Rodríguez, whom everyone in Taganana knows as Manolo, and that at 70 years old he will hold the honorary baton until next year.
A well-known neighborhood leader, he was born in Taganana and has developed his life there, being, among other things, one of the founders of the La Voz del Valle Association. He tells that this year his colleagues have wanted him to be the one to hold this position, to which he (although he did not want to) he has not been able to say no.
“The first thing I’ll do is raise my salary,” he commented amused yesterday in conversation with DIARIO DE AVISOS. She will receive the command baton and the honorary band once the militia enters the square, where a representation of the Historical-Cultural Association Gesta of July 25, 1797 will be waiting for her, which this year will not carry out the traditional recreation of the fighting in the streets of the capital, coinciding with the 23J elections, which is why they decided to move it to the month of September; specifically, on days 22, 23 and 24.
The act of Taganana becomes, therefore, the only one that this July will remember the Gesta of July 25.
The story goes that it was here, in Taganana, from where the lookouts spotted the foreign Army and, immediately and at the sound of rapture in the church bells, a militia made up of 85 residents gathered, who came ready to battle. , guided by the then royal mayor of the town, Andrés Perdomo Álvarez, who left Taganana with those 85 men and arrived in Santa Cruz with more than 400, who he managed to gather through the Anaga mountains.
Tomorrow, the militia will go back 226 years thanks to the narrator Julio Rodríguez de Castro, who will tell how those days developed. In addition, there will be residents of the town dressed in the clothing of the time to recreate the life that was carried out in Taganana in that 1797.