The Heritage Commission of the Cabildo of Lanzarote has given the green light to the basic and execution project for the restoration of the José Ramírez Cerdá Park, in Arrecife.
This authorization, as explained by the Heritage Councilor, Ariagona González, “will allow a global intervention so that the citizens of Arrecife can, at last, enjoy the long-awaited quality public space they deserve, and at the same time, put an end to the sterile controversies generated by those who insist on making patches and shoddy work that only serve for a headline and a photo but do not solve the structural problems suffered by that emblematic space in the city.”
The restoration project of the Ramírez Cerdá Park, drafted in collaboration with the technicians of the Heritage Service of the Cabildo of Lanzarote, includes, among other things, a historical study of the park, a detail of the pathologies it presents and a proposal for intervention on all the elements of such an iconographic space, from the pavements to the gardening, passing through the fountain, the bridge and the stone monolith. In addition, it proposes solutions to defective interventions and the elimination of non-substantial additions.
González pointed out that the authorization granted is due to a request made by the Arrecife City Council on June 10. “We work with the utmost speed to promote the improvement of public spaces that the population demands and deserves within the appropriate legal framework,” said the councilor.
González recalls, finally, that the integral rehabilitation of the Ramírez Cerdá Park is the result “of the responsibility, perseverance and professionalism of the new Heritage team of the Cabildo of Lanzarote that, already in March 2020, insisted to the mayor of Arrecife on the need to face a global action in that space that preserves a significant part of the aesthetic ideology of César Manrique, and since then, has collaborated with the drafting team of this project that the City Council will execute depending on the availability of financing.”
