El Pueblo Marinero in Costa Teguise hosted the inauguration of the information panel this Tuesday, officially recognizing César Manrique as the designer of this enclave.
At the event, which coincided with International Tourism Day, the mayor of Teguise, Oswaldo Betancort, indicated that this point "adds to the different attractions and architectural complexes that make up the César Manrique tourist route on the island of Lanzarote." In the municipality of Teguise, among others, is the César Manrique Foundation itself in Tahiche, and the Meliá Salinas Hotel in Costa Teguise.
"After carrying out the appropriate investigations, the College of Architects finally officially confirmed what we already intuited and knew: the architect Alfonso Galán, creator of El Pueblo Marinero in Costa Teguise, reflected unequivocally in his own project that this Pueblo Marinero had been designed by our universal artist César Manrique," Betancort pointed out.
Representatives of the César Manrique Foundation and family members of the artist, such as his sister Juana Manrique and his nephew, author of the panel, Eduardo Manrique, among others, attended the event and remembered the international artist from Lanzarote when he created this work.
"César wanted to create a reflection of the old capital of Lanzarote in Costa Teguise, he architecturally reproduced the elements that give La Villa its uniqueness, the thick and whitewashed walls, the white and green, the play of gabled roofs, inclined and four-sided in a single house, reproducing the large entrance gate that was in the old Mareta and is the main entrance to El Pueblo Marinero, the plants that contrast or the interior patios that simulate the galleries of the stately homes," explained his nephew, Eduardo Manrique. "The result is a very special tourist enclave that continues the architecture of Lanzarote, and will always be a symbol of Costa Teguise," he added.
The Teguise City Council intends to record all the works in which Cesar Manrique intervened and is now working on the Cilla, the old tithe warehouse of the church, built in 1680. This construction located in the Plaza de Los Leones, current banking entity, was restored following his guidelines in 1986. The Council is collecting the documentation of this process, in order to officially record it in a reliable manner.