Around 150 people, according to the platform Save El Puertito, gathered this Saturday at the doors of the Baobab Suites Hotel, owned by businessman Filip Hoste, to demand the halt of the Cuna del Alma tourist project, promoted by the same developer.
The gathering aimed to “highlight the long list of irregularities of the project to hotel guests, so they become aware of the situation and do not stay in businesses that actively contribute to the destruction of the island,” the platform states.
Cuna del Alma is a project for the construction of 420 luxury villas in Puertito de Adeje, in the south of Tenerife, “between two protected areas and in a place of National Geological Interest,” point out the organisers of the protest this Saturday.
Cuna del Alma, a tourist project of 420 luxury villas that are already being built in Puertito de Adeje, in the south of Tenerife
The concentration moved around the hotel establishment and ended at the headquarters of Andreas & Partners, another of Filip Hoste’s companies, where the sale of luxury villas in El Puertito de Adeje is also promoted.
“Actions will not stop until public administrations definitively halt this illegal macro project,” the organisers stated during the concentration.
Save El Puertito recalls that, thanks to the actions carried out alongside ATAN and Save La Tejita, the works were halted in 2022. However, with the change of government after the elections and Fernando Clavijo’s return to the Presidency, the work resumed.
The platform claims that in the environmental report of the project, “more than ten protected species were concealed” and that the biologist who carried out that work for the company, Rosendo López, was simultaneously working as director of the environmental body of the Adeje Town Hall. Additionally, they point out that the project lacks an environmental impact assessment and denounce “the irregular expropriation of the Galindo family’s warehouse, which is part of Puertito’s Historical Heritage.”
The organisers also denounce that the penalty to the promoters of Cuna del Alma for “the intentional and irreversible destruction of an archaeological site” was reduced from 600,000 to 228,000 euros.
“Following the historic protests of the 18M, where hundreds of thousands gathered in the Canary Islands, the mainland, and Germany, the actions have not stopped. There have been concentrations against the discharge of sewage waters, against Cuna del Alma and against overcrowding in the Teide National Park. We will not stop,” they conclude.
