The Teguise City Council names Francisco Hernández Delgado Hijo Predilecto, chronicler of the municipality since February 3, 2011. This is established in the sixth point of the City Council's plenary session this Friday, October 16, 2026.
Francisco Hernández Delgado (Teguise, 1947) is one of the great tireless disseminators of the culture and history of Teguise thanks to his research, which has allowed him to accumulate an immense wealth of knowledge about the evolution of his island.
Author of numerous ethnographic books and publications, Hernández has been the driving force behind important projects, such as the first Cultural Plan of the Teguise City Council, the Museum of the Emigrant, or the Insular Historical Archive.
Furthermore, in 2024 he was appointed president of the Board of Official Chroniclers of the Canary Islands.
The chronicler has 14 written works, among which stand out La gran Mareta; La cocina de Lanzarote; or Hambruna, Epidemias y Sanidad en Lanzarote. Likewise, Francisco Hernández has a hundred publications on historical, ethnographic, and cultural topics, mainly from the municipality of Teguise.
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