The Arrecife City Council has awarded the project for the recovery of La Recova as an island market for supplies complemented by a new gastronomic offer. The mayor of Arrecife, Yonathan de León, has confirmed that the drafting team is already working on adapting the interior of La Recova so that it can be reopened as a supply market with traditional products from Lanzarote, with the new concept known as 'kilometer zero market'.
The mayor announced this initiative this Friday inside La Recova, together with the Councilor for Tourism and Commerce, Eli Merino, to whose area the management of La Recova is attached, a space linked to the history of Arrecife. Here, since the late nineteenth century, inside, was the first supply market in Lanzarote, which ceased operations in the 90s of the last century XX, with the creation outside the municipal building of the City Council, in the old classrooms of the La Marina school.
Yonathan de León has detailed that the drafting team of this project, specialized in interventions of spaces with high heritage values, has its mandate to transfer the concept of the famous San Miguel Market in Madrid to the Lanzarote Recova. The drafting of the project will allow adapting the interior of La Recova as a supply market, attended by farmers and fishermen, which allows the direct sale of these products from the Lanzarote countryside, and / or their direct elaboration. There will be new stalls dedicated to the gastronomic offer, to be tasted by visitors. When the drafting team concludes the technical work, Arrecife will send it to Heritage for its approval, an approval that the City Council foresees favorable to respect the new intervention the elements and structures the heritage values inside and outside La Recova.
La Recova will continue as a venue for events
For her part, Councilor Eli Merino has remarked that after the restoration and conditioning of the interior of La Recova as a Supply Market, with the new sanitary requirements for the sale of products, "traditional events will continue to be organized" inside, which will be compatible with the new concept to which La Recova will be adapted for gastronomic offer and direct sale of agricultural products.
Eli Merino, as Councilor for Tourism and Commerce, recalls that in cities their traditional markets are being focused with this new concept, which allows the sale of products from the countryside, and the view and enjoyment as a tourist and gastronomic place. In addition, a specialized area for Lanzarote wines will be created.
A project to relaunch the center
Mayor Yonathan de León has emphasized that the recovery and daily opening of La Recova as a supply market "is part of a global project to relaunch the entire historic center of Arrecife", which will be joined by the "upcoming comprehensive rehabilitation of the square of the church of San Ginés, and the José Ramírez Cerdá Park", both with projects approved by Heritage and that have a financial file.
An incentive for gastronomy together with emerging projects in the area
De León Machín has highlighted that this mandate will be "key" for the municipal commitment to the recovery of the center of Arrecife, where these public actions, all with guaranteed financing, will be launched and will be reinforced for the dynamization of the center with the upcoming openings of new commercial premises, hospitality and restaurants, in the surroundings of the church of San Ginés and Calle Real.
The viability of La Recova as a supply market is guaranteed, with its new enogastronomic offer, because in addition to the sale, consumption and direct tasting of products, there is the visit of up to 600,000 people who arrive in the city of Arrecife from tourist cruises. La Recova is on the axis of the walks that tourists take when they disembark in Arrecife.