More than 350 Secondary and Baccalaureate and 5th and 6th Primary students from this municipality already have their visit arranged.
The San Bartolomé de Tirajana City Council has started this Friday an educational project dedicated to disseminating knowledge about the Arteara Necropolis among 5th and 6th grade Primary students and all Secondary and Baccalaureate training levels in this municipality.
This educational initiative of the Departments of Education and Culture directed by the second deputy mayor, Elena Álamo Vega, and coordinated by the councilor delegate Esther Delgado, will take place during the coming months of January, February and March, and in principle will reach 353 students.
The first educational center that has already benefited from this cultural proposal has been CEO Tunte, who this Friday took around thirty of his students to the Necropolis. Starting next January 18, CEIPs El Matorral and Cercado Espino, IES Támara, Colegio Arenas and IES Faro will also participate with a visit date already closed.
These school visits to the archaeological site, which is the largest aboriginal cemetery on the island of Gran Canaria, are led by interpreter guides from the Tibicena Arqueologia y Patrimony company with extensive and extensive experience in the field of research and dissemination of archaeological heritage.
The activity is free of charge thanks to the subsidy of 15.000 euros for collaboration with the project provided by the Heritage Service of the Cabildo de Gran Canaria, intended to cover the costs of round-trip transportation from the educational centers.
The visits have been established in two daily sessions, between 9.00:13.30 a.m. and 30:XNUMX p.m., with a maximum of XNUMX people in each group, to ensure the conservation of the heritage space and promote the quality of the activity.
The students who have already visited the Necropolis, which occupies a space of 137.570 m² with some 810 tumular structures for collective and individual burials, are pleasantly surprised by this activity.
“With these school visits we try to promote the interest and knowledge of our young people in the archaeological and cultural heritage of our municipality. The intention is that this project is maintained and can reach the greatest number of students,” says Elena Álamo Vega.
The site was declared a national historical-artistic monument in 1973 by the Ministry of Education and Science. In June 1985 it was classified as an Asset of Cultural Interest with the category of archaeological zone. In 2014, at the initiative of Mayor Marco Aurelio Pérez, the site was provided with its own interpretation center.
