The Teguise Village Market will reopen its doors this Sunday, March 7th, during its usual hours (from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.), reinforcing the hygienic-sanitary security protocol implemented in November, the month in which the market was reactivated after the first wave of the pandemic.
With the entry into level 3, "and predictably, with the next update and reduction of restrictive measures in Lanzarote and La Graciosa", the City Council has decided to restart one of the events that attracts the most visitors to the Historic Site of the Village, and which in turn, promotes consumption in shops, bars and restaurants in the area.
For this, the special Security Plan has been reinforced, which will allow the market to be reopened to the public, the "most popular and important" in the Canary Islands, and which "after its forced closure in March once the state of alarm was decreed, and the subsequent cancellation in January, has suffered the economic consequences, which not only affect the owners of the stalls, but also the business fabric of the town of La Villa and its surroundings."
"Once the health authorities allow it and given the improvement of Covid data on the island, we must work on the reactivation of the municipality, adapting social and economic life to the current situation, without losing sight of the fact that the risk exists until there is collective immunity against the coronavirus," said the mayor of Teguise, Oswaldo Betancort. "We trust in the success of the planning and coordination that security technicians and emergency services are carrying out so that the Village can breathe life again with all the guarantees, because it is time to combine new strategies that allow us to live with the threat of the virus without further damaging economic activity," he added.
From the Market area coordinated by Eugenio Robayna, also responsible for Security and Emergencies, they guarantee "the monitoring of the set of measures, protocols, obligations and recommendations for the containment of its spread, both for customers and personnel of the market itself, as well as for the merchants, who will relocate the 150 permitted stalls (on a rotating basis) in the Plaza de La Mareta, which will have two access points with controllers who guarantee compliance with the maximum permitted capacity, which is 50%," Robayna explained.
