The counselor of the Island Council of Lanzarote of the NC UPY coalition, Óscar Noda, requested in the last island council plenary session that the cleaning and restoration of the Salinas del Risco de Famara be launched, a cultural legacy that we cannot let be lost since, together with the rest of the salt mines on the island of Lanzarote, they make up a human landscape of high architectural and cultural value.
“We cannot forget”, continues Noda, “that the salt mines were essential for the island's economy until not long ago and, in addition, they contribute to not letting the effort of many Lanzarote residents who worked from sun to sun to transform the environment they inhabited and get fruit from the nature that surrounded them fall into oblivion. The essence of salt architecture is a clear example of a trade transmitted from parents to children from generations, of claw, sweat and roots to the conejera land. Without forgetting the tourist charm that this enclave has in an area like Famara. We are talking about tourism but also about sustainable tourism that, undoubtedly, provides us with new vigor as a destination in an area that is much more than Famara Beach”.
Councilor Óscar Noda also proposed that, “at the same time, a maintenance system be articulated through educational centers oriented to the primary sector or through public companies, making the effort deemed necessary to respectfully care for our past and pamper our future”, concludes Óscar Noda.
