The Italian presence in the south of Gran Canaria offers opportunities in both directions

The councilor of the Cabildo and leader of PP AV, Marco Aurelio Pérez, received an invitation from Italian friends and family in the Vatican to attend an audience with Pope Francis in Rome. Marco Aurelio Pérez took advantage of the opportunity of an island well connected to Italian airports and appeared before the Holy Father accompanied by the former Councilor for Tourism, Ramón Suárez Ojeda.

And if brief and good, twice as good, as the Jesuit Gración wrote, the also Jesuit Jorge Mario Bergoglio received a bibliographic gift from the Gran Canarian visitors, who had the opportunity to comment with Francisco on "the enriching multiculturalism that the municipality of San Bartolomé, the different religions and cultures that coexist in it in full harmony and that have positioned us as a Rotary City of Peace. The Gran Canarian pilgrims did not fail to comment to the bishop of Rome about the existence in Maspalomas of the Ecumenical Temple, unique in Europe for the number of churches it houses and the emblematic headquarters of the different Christian religions.

Marco Aurelio Pérez, grateful for the meeting, limits himself to highlighting "the Pontiff's ability to listen and the interest shown in San Bartolomé de Tirajana and the opportunity that it represents to reference the municipality in the Vatican."