Cross port has welcomed today Saturday the ancestral ritual of the Baño de las Cabras, in which more than 400 goats have participated that hand in hand with their goatherds have met at the fishing dock to comply with a rite that every morning of San Juan attracts so much attention among residents and visitors in the tourist city.
From early in the morning, the historic quay and its surroundings are a bustle of people eager to contemplate the herds of goats that come from all over the northern region of Tenerife and that by the hand of the Cultural Association of Friends of the Bath of Las Cabras in the Sea, With its president Amílcar Fariña at the helm, they also meet to celebrate other traditions such as intelligence games with Professor José Manuel Espinel or the exhibition of the game of Palo with the Auchón Guanil Cultural Association.
“The Bath of Goats in the Sea is only love and tradition that must be known and spread so that it continues with us forever, with the affection towards our legacy that we assert to feel proud of what has been, is and will be Puerto de la Cruz”, affirmed the mayor of Puerto de la Cruz, Marco gonzalezwhich received the goats at the foot of the pier.
The Bath of the Goats in the Sea promoted at the time by the remembered Chucho Dorta and recovered by the research work and support of the professor and award Canary Islands Manuel Lorenzo Perera, is consolidated within the acts of the San Juan festivities that the city has celebrated throughout the week to continue sharing the ancestral traditions that are part of the cultural heritage of the city.
