The Museum of Zafra in St. Lucia is consolidated in the insular network of museums.

YOUR HISTORY ROOMS EXPOSED TOMATO CANARY EXPORT.

More than 12.000 people visited last year the Museum of Zafra Santa Lucia de Tirajana on Gran Canaria, one of the cultural and ethnographic references in this municipality.

For Councilman Heritage, Francisco García, “with these positive data, It strengthens its space center and importance within the network of museums of the island, not only for its content but also because the original way to present”.

The Museum of Zafra has more than four thousand square meters spread over twelve rooms, where the cultivation process is explained, harvest, packaging, transport and export of tomato, as well as the lifestyle of sharecroppers who attended the lands and the important role that had water on crops southeast of Gran Canaria.

This cultural and ethnographic space was created in order to perpetuate the historical memory of the evolution of the coast of St. Lucia, where hundreds of people from other regions and municipalities moved to take the harvest of tomatoes, He underlines García.

In fact, yet we find emotional scenes of people visiting this area and recognize, tearfully full of memories, people or objects in a time of great hardship, but also of unity and brotherhood to improve living conditions”, Alderman points.