Learn, train, and innovate. That is the objective of ‘La Casa Roja’, a building that dates back to the 18th century and that in the year 2000 was acquired by the Town Hall of El Sauzal to be restored with the aim of turning it into a space for training and education in all its aspects.
That was the will of its last owner, a Swedish scientist who wanted to dedicate it to knowledge and research, an objective that was achieved in 2016 during open days aimed at probing the future of the property, which was initially planned as the first hostel municipal.
Located on the main road to the North, the Consistory began to restore it between 2008 and 2010 thanks to a Workshop School and with a project carried out under the auspices of the Government of the Canary Islands that was completed in subsequent phases.
Thus, after more than a decade and a half of work, ‘The Red House’ opened its doors yesterday to stop being a project and become a reality. The opening ceremony was attended by the mayor, Mariano Pérez, and several members of the Municipal Corporation; the Rector of the University of La Laguna, Rosa Aguilar; the president of the University Foundation of Las Palmas, Alberto Cabré, and the Insular Director of Education, Isabel Bello; representatives of the German Dual Training School in Tenerife, Ashotel and the Tenerife Insular Federation of Associations of Parents of Students (Fitapa).
Mariano Pérez thanked the different institutions and entities for having agreed to achieve the same objective: to train and educate, and in that sense, he stressed that ‘La Casa Roja’ will not only benefit the municipality but the entire region and the island.
The rest of the public representatives spoke in the same terms, who valued that there is a space of these characteristics, which now must be filled with projects and ideas and which serves as an example to all the municipalities of the Canary Islands.
