The wagon Telde surprised with a tribute to the 130 Tomato years in the Canary Islands.

The municipality of Telde homage to workers and tomato was the highlight of the pilgrimage of El Pino.

With a very successful assembly, Telde and the tomato industry, the wagon represented the municipality of Telde in the pilgrimage-offering to the Virgin del Pino he said on the remaining twenty municipalities of the island, the scene of two sharecroppers amarando tomators.

With this allegory, Telde joined the 130 Canary anniversary tomato crop export that has been developing since last January.

While the wagon left no one indifferent, the highlights were the hundreds of stories told by those who approached it; experiences, semblanzas, scraps and memories of those who saw reflected in this recreation the not too distant past.

Certainly a fitting tribute to those who are part of the recent history of the Canaries through a culture that shaped much of the canary territory and determined the economy, demographics and society of much of the twentieth century.

In the municipality of Telde it was where cultivation began. He was an employee of the company Swanston, Mr. Blisse, who worked in the construction of the old Puerto de La Luz and Las Palmas, which in 1885 He planted the first seeds of tomato on a farm Valley of Nine, with a view to export to the UK.

The goodness of teldense climate allowed the seed endure during the winter months in places like El Goro, the Pardilla, The snail, La Garita, Melenara, La Mareta or Jinámar. The cultivation quickly spread through the rest of the archipelago and with it the relations between the Canarian ports. He had conquered, at that moment, an essential destination for Canary agricultural production, helping many growers and farmers to launch into tomato.

The design of the wagon Telde for Pilgrimage del Pino -from municipal technician Javier Martel with the help of workers of the Department of Celebration directed by Juan Martel- It is based on the composition of its perimeter with ceretos for the offering, carrying tomatoes as the main element.

It stands on its central axis scene sharecroppers and sharecroppers in a day's work on a large scale. Like this, the composition in its vertical part and the highest point of the wagon is reflected, distributed by the greasy pole with the scene of the atareos for planting that offer more realism and meaning to the design.