The Cabildo of Lanzarote has signed this Friday the purchase of the known as 'Casa del Cura' in Haría, stating that it will now become "a public center of the City Council with multipurpose rooms for the enjoyment of the residents of this municipality. The president, Pedro San Ginés, accompanied by the mayor of Haría, Marciano Acuña, has signed the purchase-sale contract with the family that owns the house for an amount of 600,000 euros, co-financed through the program 'Plan for Improvement and Conservation and Historical and Cultural Heritage' of the FDCA).
In a statement, the government group of the Cabildo links this purchase to the agreement reached with the City Council of Haría to end the conflict of the Cueva de los Verdes, despite the fact that the City Council is currently analyzing the validity of that agreement and has not yet ruled out the possibility of requesting the execution of the sentence that condemned the Island Corporation to abandon that tourist center and pay a millionaire compensation to the City Council.
However, San Ginés has insisted that this agreement "regulated and gave legal certainty, after 50 years, to the relationship established between these two institutions, also putting an end to the institutional conflict that arose in the previous legislature." "Although some have tried to keep us in an institutional conflict that neither governments want, nor the residents of Haría deserve and need. What they need are future projects like the present one and, therefore, we can only congratulate ourselves that finally, after almost a decade of negotiations between the City Council and the property, today has taken place, with this act of sale, its completion," San Gines pointed out in this regard.
Marci Acuña: "The house already belongs to Haría"
For his part, the mayor of Haría, Marci Acuña, has thanked "deeply" the family "for the patience and the outstretched hand they always had" with the public administration "so that the City Council was its first option and kept the house for public use of all residents".
Acuña also wanted to respond to some criticisms sustained by "those doom-mongers who said that the property was not going to be for the people of Haría". "As a result of this investment by the Cabildo and the institutional collaboration and dialogue that has been maintained in the last three years, today we can confirm that the house already belongs to Haría," he said.
A historic house from the late nineteenth century
The 'Casa del Cura' of Haría is a building with two different parts. The main one, according to the Cabildo, is a historic house from the late nineteenth century (1895), subsequently rehabilitated; and the second is an extension that was carried out in the late 80s. The outside area of the land has been dedicated to parking. It consists of 1,077.5 square meters built.
The facade maintains the traditional symmetrical scheme of five openings, with a door in the center and two guillotine windows on each side. The entrance is preceded by a garden surrounded by a small wall that restricts direct access to the property.
