Do you think that Vegueta and Triana would be declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site?
Numerous cultural, historical, artistic and economic entities in Gran Canaria have supported the petition for Vegueta-Triana to be included in the Unesco World Heritage list.
On this occasion, the initiative has come from civil society and not from the City Council of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, as happened previously.
In the event that Unesco agrees to the request, Vegueta-Triana would be the sixth World Heritage of the Archipelago after Garajonay, La Laguna, Teide, the whistle from La Gomera as intangible heritage and Risco Caído and the Sacred Mountains of Gran Canaria. Vegueta was declared a national historical-artistic complex in 1973 and Triana of Cultural Interest (BIC) in 1993.
The citizen platform that seeks to rescue the Herrera Piqué project for the historic complex was presented last January at the Auditorium of the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and has the support of 18 entities, which it has now joined the UD Las Palmas.
He Herrera Piqué’s project highlights the fact that the capital of Gran Canaria was the first city founded by Castilla overseas -in 1478-, that it housed the first political-administrative headquarters in that same area, was the first sugar-producing city, built the first Spanish cathedral overseas and the first institutional main square with the governmental and ecclesiastical powers, thus a precursor of everything that would happen in Hispanic America. In addition, it highlights the transition from the medieval urban fabric to a regular one -imitated on the other side of the Atlantic later- and the variety of architectural styles of its buildings, from Gothic to Rationalist.
