The Tías City Council has started new beautification works in the main roundabouts of Puerto del Carmen, where sculptures dedicated to the maritime origin of La Tiñosa will be placed.
The works, which are part of an ideas and sculptures competition convened by the City Council, will focus in this phase on the strategic roundabouts accessing the center of La Tiñosa, along Juan Carlos Primero and Reina Sofía streets, next to the Biosfera shopping center. Another of the sculptures will be located in the roundabout accessing from the road to the airport, next to the Matagorda urbanization, at one end of the largest tourist area of Puerto del Carmen.
The works will be carried out during the spring and the City Council asks drivers to exercise "caution" when traveling through these areas, which are fenced off.
Within the beautification plan of Puerto del Carmen and due to its connection with the maritime origin of this tourist area that was born in the 60s of the last century XX from the small nucleus of La Tiñosa, the City Council will place a sculpture of marine design in the area around El Varadero and Iglesia del Carmen.
Winning work of the ideas competition
The Tías City Council recalls that the ideas competition for the beautification of the municipality's roundabouts received more than thirty proposals from different parts of the national geography, with the first prize going to María Dolores Acosta, a young teacher from the Pancho Lasso Art School, whose sculptural work is being assembled in the roundabout next to the Biosfera shopping center.
The jury of this contest was made up of architects, representatives of the tourism sector and the field of culture and art, and decided to choose the work "Mar I, Mar II" for the first position. Thus, the young Lanzarote teacher won a prize of 10,000 euros. The project is a "tribute to our seabed and, especially, to the well-known grouper Félix, a symbol in the world of diving in the seabed of La Tiñosa".
Within this plan to improve the roundabouts of the municipality of Tías, the City Council recalls that the one dedicated to the Canarian Wrestling has been installed in recent times on the Central Avenue of Tías, the Saramago Olive Tree, next to what was the house of the Nobel Prize for Literature, and adopted neighbor of Tías, and the tribute to the Fisherman, on Reina Sofía street, next to the school of Puerto del Carmen.