The rain has played a trick on San Andrés Day, the day most anticipated by the people of Icodense to enjoy the last day of drag on the boards after two days of excitement and vertigo. However, this has not prevented the most daring, especially young people, from going downhill through the steepest streets of the municipality at times when the water subsided.
The water was not an obstacle for the most curious to come and enjoy the show protected with umbrellas and raincoats. The streets with the most crowds and participants were Hércules, Antonio González González, better known as El Pleno and Los Franceses, where several children could be seen.
The City Council suspended the Wine Festival, which was scheduled to be held in the Plaza de Andrés de Lorenzo Cáceres with the participation of wineries and restaurants from the municipality and the regulatory councils of the Denominations of Origin. It did so as a consequence of the alert for adverse meteorological phenomena issued by the Government of the Canary Islands and after the activation of the Tenerife Island Emergency Plan (PEIN), which contemplates the recommendation of suspension or postponement of the activities that were scheduled to air. free.
According to the City Council, many of the participants had already communicated that they were not considering the possibility of attending this celebration because the logistics of the event required several hours of assembly that could not be carried out, all of this together with the situation that occurred. due to the rain that has wet the electrical installations and caused some damage in the municipality, such as falling branches and minor damage to street furniture.
However, the City Council’s intention is to reschedule a date with the participants, a decision that is being studied by the government group.
The main novelty of this year’s programming was adding one more day of drag at the request of the hospitality sector. Thus, the party began on Tuesday the 28th, the day in which the streets were blocked starting at five in the afternoon and in which the institutional act of uncorking the first harvest of this year took place, whose maintainer was the young viticulturist Orlando Acosta and in which he paid tribute to the recently deceased Fernando González, winemaker of Cueva del Rey, who left an important legacy in the wine tradition of Icod de los Vinos.
On Wednesday, the eve of the saint’s day, the municipality brought together thousands of people who did not want to miss the opportunity to jump on a board and taste the new wine and roasted chestnuts, both in the street bars and on the terraces of bars and restaurants. restaurants. It was the prelude to a day of San Andrés passed through water, although no less intense and balanced by that extra that was contemplated, as a prediction, in this year’s calendar.
