The Antoñico Mill and the openwork sculpture in the square receive more than 100 thousand euros for their execution

 

The Villa de Ingenio City Council and the Gran Canaria Tourist Board have recently signed two agreements in which direct subsidies are granted and regulated for the execution of the strategy to improve public spaces, which include the provision of the mill by Antoñico Bordón and the sculptural installation of the openwork, in the northern area of ​​the Plaza de La Candelaria. 

 

 

Framed in the Strategic Subsidy Plan of the Cabildo of Gran Canaria corresponding to the financial year 2021 and 2022, the Antoñico Bordón Mill has an amount of 68.130,52 euros and the sculptural installation of the openwork with 45.000 euros. The total sum of the two projects is 113.130,52 euros. 

 

Both subsidies aim to cooperate in the rehabilitation and improvement of the municipality's tourist infrastructure and spaces to contribute to the development of tourist infrastructure in the municipality that is especially attractive to visitors.

 

The 'Antoñico Bordón Mill Endowment' project contemplates a comprehensive intervention that brings together different specialties and interventions that have the common objective of creating an attractive space, coherent with the whole and that allows the visitor to have an experience in which their senses intervene. This intervention aims to carry out different rehabilitation and improvement actions both inside and outside the property, located in the surroundings of the Néstor Álamo Park, to partially overcome the important accessibility problems that the building presents, as well as to provide it with informative content. and signage. The City Council's financial contribution will be 22.744,04 euros, corresponding to 33,38% of the total cost of the investment.

 

The project 'Las Caladoras de Ingenio' takes a design of a typical fretwork made by the artisans and that forms a large concrete panel as a large loom on the structure of the old fountain in the northern area of ​​the square, using the scale and the material to give it a monumental character.

 

Mayor Ana Hernández highlights the importance of executing these projects “which reinforce the image of our municipality as a defender of the traditions and elements that identify us in the Archipelago and internationally.” 

 

For her part, the Councilor for Tourism, Pilar Arbelo, assures that both actions “aim to expand and complement the tourist offer on the route through the historic center of Ingenio, in addition to providing the people who visit us with a greater tourist attraction than the existing one.