The Teguise Village Market will open its doors this Sunday, November 8, at its usual time (from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.), but with a hygienic-sanitary security protocol that fully complies with all regulations, including the recommendations set by Covid19. For this purpose, a special Security Plan has been designed to allow the most popular and important Market in the Canary Islands to reopen to the public, which until its forced closure in March once the state of alarm was decreed, housed 450 stalls where you could buy handicrafts, books, jewelry, clothing and other utensils, as well as typical products of the island and the Canary Islands, as well as food.
At the Security Board held this Tuesday in the Villa, the content of the new Plan was outlined with the contributions of all those involved in order for the document to comply with the regulatory framework for protection against Covid, including a set of measures, protocols, obligations and recommendations for the containment of its spread, both for customers and staff of the market itself, as well as for merchants, who will relocate the 150 permitted stalls (on a rotating basis), which will present a renewed image and a series of approved demountable elements and structures.
The area designated to organize the activity classified as a public show will be Plaza de La Mareta, which will have four new access points with controllers to ensure compliance with the maximum permitted capacity of 1,000 people, which under normal conditions would be 4,460 people, a limit calculated based on the 6,000 square meters of the site.
"Teguise is working on the reactivation of the municipality, designing new strategies that allow us to live with the threat of the virus without further damaging economic activity," said Oswaldo Betancort, who is confident that "all the planning and coordination that is being carried out with security technicians and emergency services, as well as Local Police officers and Civil Protection volunteers, will translate into the dynamization of the Historic Site, and therefore, the reactivation of its open commercial area, its restoration and its entire business fabric, as well as the consumption of our rich architectural heritage." "It is a great opportunity to verify that it is possible to promote economic and social development, safeguarding the health of citizens and also visitors," added Betancort.
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The Councilor for the Market area, Eugenio Robayna, clarified after the Security Board that "he is working jointly with the Department of Commerce, because the Villa de Teguise has an exquisite network of stores and restaurants that the public can consume during their Sunday visit." "Just as we have conscientiously prepared the opening of the Market, we are going to launch the artisan, agricultural and traditional markets of Costa Teguise as soon as possible," Robayna pointed out.
In this regard, the head of Commerce, Olivia Duque, is coordinating with representatives of the commercial sector "a promotion campaign that encourages local consumption and that transmits, now more than ever, the need to support small businesses to sustain the economy of the municipality," said Olivia Duque.