LA LAGUNA (TENERIFE), Jan. 4 (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Auto Sacramental of the Three Wise Men of Tejina, one of the most deeply-rooted popular theater performances in the Canary Islands, will add a new edition this coming Friday starting at 9:30 p.m. in the surroundings of the San Bartolomé church square with about a hundred people and the City Council’s forecast that it will be declared BIC (Asset of Cultural Interest” throughout the year.
The presentation of this traditional Christmas event and its official poster took place this Thursday with the participation of the mayor of La Laguna, Luis Yeray Gutiérrez; the Lagunero Fiestas councilor, Dailos González; the councilor of Culture, Leticia Villegas; and the representative of the Three Wise Men of Tejina Cultural Association, José Antonio Alonso.
Luis Yeray Gutiérrez recalled that the council and the Association responsible for organizing this Sacramental Auto of the Three Wise Men of Tejina have been working hand in hand for months to achieve its declaration as an Asset of Cultural Interest given that its representation began at the beginning of the 20th century.
In this sense, the first mayor announced that this procedure is facing its final stretch after the approval of the technical presentation of the project, so they trust that throughout this year it will obtain this “deserved recognition.”
“This same month of January, the Regional Cultural Heritage Council is scheduled to meet, which is the body in charge of issuing a favorable report to be submitted to the Government Council of the Canary Islands for final approval as BIC,” added the mayor.
For his part, Dailos González wanted to thank “the involvement and effort that the Three Wise Men of Tejina Association puts every year at the service of this event and all the people who contribute to keeping this tradition alive” of which the tejineros and the tejineras and the rest of the lagoon population.
Likewise, the councilor encouraged the citizens of the municipality to be part of this experience and to experience firsthand this representation full of fervor and emotion.
José Antonio Alonso highlighted that this future declaration as BIC “would be an explicit recognition of all the generations that for more than one hundred years have given life to this Car and have wanted to perpetuate this cultural legacy.”
In his opinion, “there are no theatrical exhibitions of this type with so many years of continuity in the Canary Islands, if we take as reference the appearances in the press that date back to 1905.”
