The Villa de San Juan de la Rambla recovered the Baroque Market of the Canary Islands yesterday after two years of forced stoppage due to the health situation. The fifth edition of this meeting was a reminder of the theme of the four previous editions.
“Attendees experienced, through theatrical performances, the time when the malvasía ramblero became a delicacy appreciated by the European elite of the time, they remembered the figure of Vicente Alonso del Castillo, captain of the Garachico militias in the fight against Captain Nelson, the European visitors who made a stop in the municipality, especially in the figure of André Pierre Ledrú or the Portuguese influence that floods the Islands, emphasizing San Juan de la Rambla and its founder Martín Rodríguez, a Portuguese settler who In the 16th century, he built a hermitage in honor of Saint John the Baptist and gave rise to what we know today”, he explained to the Councilor for Heritage, Gloria Méndez.
The dramatizations acted as the backbone of the entire program, putting on stage about twenty local actors belonging to the theater groups of the municipality. The more than 10-hour show began at eleven in the morning with the official inauguration and the opening of the Market stalls, which offered typical products of the time. The program was completed with baroque music concerts in the BIC courtyards or a concert of period music in the historic organ.
