The City Council of La Laguna will create in this legislature its own body dedicated to the management of historical heritage, providing the department responsible for these powers with sufficient personnel to carry out the tasks that are entrusted to it by European and state legislation and the Heritage Law culture of the Canary Islands
The mayor of La Laguna, Luis Yeray Gutiérrez, explained that “from the Consistory we are committed to creating a Historic City Office, a figure dedicated to the protection of the historical complex and the cataloged buildings of the municipality and the rest of the heritage: artistic, archaeological, ethnographic, bibliographic, documentary, linguistic, landscape, industrial, scientific, technical or of any other cultural nature, regardless of its ownership and legal regime”.
The Laguna City Council wanted to emphasize that these bodies, in no case, will replace those of a higher rank at the island or regional level, depending on the type of property or cataloging that they require.
Law 11/2019 on the Cultural Heritage of the Canary Islands states in its article 20 that “city councils, especially those with a declared historical complex, must create municipal cultural heritage councils, which will act as technical advisory bodies for the municipal administration.”
“This circumstance acquires even greater dimension in the case of La Laguna, taking into account that it is the only town in the Canary Islands included in the Group of World Heritage Cities of Spain,” added Luis Yeray Gutiérrez.
Within the specific personnel that is intended to be incorporated into the Department, specific profiles will be included such as architects, historians, archaeologists, general administration technicians, administrative staff or assistants.
