Tindaya (Fuerteventura), 8 May (EFE) of carbon and the environmental impact that visitors leave in the territory.
The United Sí Podemos candidate visited the Tindaya town square this afternoon, a few hundred meters from the mountain of the same name.
At the end of March, the Governing Council gave the green light to extend the delimitation of the Asset of Cultural Interest (BIC), with the category of archaeological zone, to the entire mountain, since until then it was only limited to the upper part of the mountain.
Santana has assured that the coalition with which he is running in the May elections “is not only going to protect people, as it has been done these four years”, but also wants to protect the territory and cultural heritage.
“There are many people who visit this archipelago and they do so because of the richness of our natural and cultural heritage,” he acknowledged at the foot of Tindaya, where in the 1990s the sculptor Eduardo Chillida planned to pierce the mountain to create a sculpture inspired by Cernuda’s verse “the deep is the air”, which aroused the discomfort and rejection of the environmental groups of the islands.
“We understand that for our land to have a future we must respect our heritage and territory”, he has indicated while expressing that tourism growth must revert to the Canarian citizenship, for which reason he has opted to regulate vacation rentals “or put in an eco-tax for the Canary Islands operates”.
The Tindaya mountain possibly houses the largest set of podomorphic engravings in the world.
After his declaration as BIC, several unknowns await Tindaya. Among them, if it can be made visitable or if funding will be invested to continue with archaeological campaigns, in a place that for many researchers is the sacred temple of the “majos”, the ancient inhabitants of the island.
Noemí Santana has raised the need to “look for alternative economic models that enrich the cultural life of this land.”
“We want alternative activities to be carried out in this space on the sacred mountain of Tindaya that generate a resource that those from abroad and also those of us who live in the Canary Islands want to visit”, he expressed.
For her part, the Podemos candidate for Parliament for Fuerteventura, Lilian Concepción, thanked Santana and the Director General of Cultural Heritage, Nona Perera, for “having listened and making the fight to protect Tindaya their own.”
Lastly, he assured that Tindaya is an example that, when society comes together, “it is unstoppable”. EFE