The contracting table of the contest called by the Government of the Canary Islands for the recovery of the Islote de La Fermina will meet this Friday, the 17th, to definitively award the works. This was announced by the Minister of Tourism of the Government of the Canary Islands, Manuel Fajardo Feo, who recalled that among the companies that are opting to carry out these works there are some with capital from Lanzarote.
This project for the Islote de La Fermina is part of the Infrastructure and Tourist Quality Plan of the Canary Islands 2001-2006, an initiative co-financed by the European Regional Development Fund. The maximum budget for bidding for the works amounts to 1,838,510 euros, and the execution period is set at nine months from the award of the same.
In this regard, it should be remembered that previously there was a project on the table, that of the architect Carlos Morales, but it ended up being discarded because it did not conform to the original idea that the artist César Manrique devised for La Fermina, and which is now intended to be rescued.
Precisely this fact has been a source of controversy, since the College of Architects considers that Morales' project should have been applied, because he was the winner of the ideas competition that the Government of the Canary Islands convened in 2001, with a specification of conditions that gave the drafters freedom to present their proposals for the rehabilitation of the Islote de la Fermina.
The change of criteria occurred with the arrival of Fajardo Feo to the Ministry of Tourism and the new contest establishes as an indispensable condition that the new Islote de La Fermina includes many of the elements that César Manrique designed in his sketches. Thus, among other things, the new leisure space will have a saltwater pool and in the area closest to the commercial dock there will be an area that will imitate the souks of La Geria.
