The Plaza de la Basílica, the same square where the Guanche ceremony will be held tomorrow, Sunday, starting at 8:00 p.m., hosted the Bohemia Lanzarote concert on Thursday and last night the Tarasca show, from the Pieles Company, while today it will passed at 7:45 p.m. to the Luchada de Benjamines –Homage to the Luchada de la Media Montaña–, to continue with an exhibition of indigenous sports, or at 9:15 p.m., the Luchada Institucional, in charge of a team from the North from Tenerife that will face the one from the south of the youth category, and that will give way to the IV Women’s Fight.
Yesterday, August 12, the streets of Candelaria still presented an image that was more commercial than pilgrimage; with more bags than pilgrim sticks.
That yes, it was a day of sounds that rode through the waves of Cope Canarias, from eight in the morning, to continue on Onda Canarias, Candelaria Radio, Canarias Radio, Radio Rumberos, Radio Club Tenerife, Radio Marca and Radio Nacional de España , where both the mayor, Mari Brito, and the rector of the Basilica of Candelaria, José Ramón Enjamio, acted as hosts and starred in a hand in hand in the old town hall of the Villa, once the town’s school, enabled yesterday as a radio studio. Actually, from many radios that served as advance guard, live, as pilgrims to Villa Mariana.
Shortly after nine o’clock in the morning, the military salutes and the deployment they carried out in the Plaza de la Patrona were surprising on the first occasion that the detachment that will render honors next Monday moves to rehearse. At least since 2001, according to the dean of the Candelaria City Council, Francisco Pinto, responsible for Citizen Participation and Protocol, among other areas.
In the Basilica, a continuous trickle of pilgrims arrived mostly by car, like Marcos and María, children of the Villa. They lost their mother during the pandemic last summer and had not been able to return to the town where they were born from Brussels, where they have established their residence. For them, yesterday was special, like the reunion that thousands of pilgrims will star in these days, each one with their own story, when Candelaria becomes the capital of the Canary Islands.
