Years ago Garachico it did not have so many works and projects to improve key spaces for its future underway. La Villa y Puerto is being renovated thanks to public investment and will soon open a new approved training center in the old school of San Isidoro; has already laid the foundations of future music school; executes improvements in the public parking enabled in the old soccer field; Work continues on the access to the Callaos de Llabrés beach; repairs the field of La Caleta; prepares a museum on the 1706 eruption and, in addition, two of its most important projects in recent decades are in the administrative process: the new cultural space that will occupy the old packaging of La Fast and the large geriatric residence.
The reform of the old school of San Isidoro, valued at more than 500,000 euros, has allowed the City Council to have a rehabilitated mansion as an approved training center that will temporarily house the music school. This allows you to release the stone housewhere it is planned to set up a museum on the historic eruption this year, for which the Cabildo has granted the Consistory a grant of 325,000 euros.
The mayor of Garachica, Jose Heriberto Gonzalez (CC)announces that he hopes to put the old San Isidoro school into use around Easter (mid-April) and that its usual name will be respected: House of Music Pedro A. Pérez Delgado. Apart from its training uses, this property will continue to be the headquarters of the Garachico Musical Association, “which will occupy the same rooms that it had been using.”
The cultural center of the packaging of La Fast and the new geriatric residence will cost 12 million
The reception of this property has coincided with the work of concreting the foundations of the future headquarters of the music school on the site of the Martín de Andújar school. More than 200 students of Buenavista, Los Silos, Garachico and El Tanque. This project is valued at around 800,000 euros and is also expected to be completed by the end of 2022.
With 258,183 euros contributed by the Regional Ministry of Tourism and the Government of Spaina new parking lot and a pedestrian access, with path and stairs, to La Caleta del Andén, a small cove of pebbles also known as Llabrés beach, are enabled.
The Garachiquense City Hall has removed the two spotlight turrets from the south wall of the old football field, now converted into a car park, “since they were in a state of obvious deterioration and have always been an obstacle to vision over the façade of the Convent of Franciscan Conceptionists», according to the mayor. While “better alternatives for lighting the area” are being studied, the wall of the main access has also been renovated, which gave a bad image due to its deterioration and the presence of old advertising.
The municipality also recently completed the entire exterior area of the packaging of The Fastwhere 500,000 euros were invested in a new public square, and the improvement of the former convent of San Francisco, where 900,000 euros were spent. And it has two of its most exciting and costly projects pending execution: the cultural space for the packaging of La Fast, budgeted at around 3 million euros and still in the administrative process, and the future geriatric residence, valued at 9 million euros. This social health center would increase the number of places available for elderly dependents from 41 to 100, and give a new use to the old hospital.
