The governing group of the Tías City Council, formed by PSOE, Lanzarote Avanza (Lava) and Lanzarote en Pie-Sí Podemos, will take to the next ordinary plenary session scheduled for this Tuesday, at 6:00 p.m., the declaration of the José Saramago House Museum as an Asset of Municipal Interest.
The José Saramago House Museum is the first property in the municipality to have applied for this declaration. The objective of the top officials of the Corporation is to encourage cultural, artistic or scientific entities, among others, to settle in the municipality, while encouraging those who already reside in Tías to apply for this declaration of special municipal interest.
The Consistory explains that the cultural heritage of the Canary Islands is made up of movable, immovable or intangible manifestations that, due to their artistic, historical, architectural, archaeological, paleontological, ethnological, anthropological, industrial, scientific and technical, documentary or bibliographic value, should be considered of interest for the permanence, recognition and identity of the culture through time.
According to the proposal presented, the municipality of Tías is the population center where the José Saramago House Museum is located. Over the years, "a large number of visitors of different nationalities have passed through the facilities, in addition to schoolchildren from the island and, on occasions, from abroad, who have visited the facilities as a support program for their studies of literature, tourism or languages," it is highlighted.
The City Council also recalls that on October 5, 2012, the declaration of the museum facilities of the José Saramago House Museum as a Center of Cultural Interest of Exceptional Value was approved and adopted in the Plenary Session of the Island Council of Lanzarote and that José Saramago, Nobel Prize for Literature, was named Adoptive Son of Tías and Favorite Son of Lanzarote.
