PLAZA DE LOS PATOS

SANTA CRUZ DE TENERIFE
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The Plaza de los Patos, opens at a crossroads of streets and boulevards, in a place in the city that stands out for the uniqueness of its buildings. It is located at the intersection of Veinticinco de Julio, Costa and Grijalba, Viera and Clavijo and General O Donell streets

The 25 de Julio promenade serves as support for the square in which the building that served as Presidency of the Government of the Canary Islands and the Anglican Church subsequently acquired by the Catholic church stand out.

The Plaza de los Patos is one of the spaces with the most significant value in the city and of great activity due to its proximity to what was the former School of Commerce, whose studies are now integrated in the University Campus of the University of La Lagoon.

In history, the Plaza de los Patos was the place of passage of horse-drawn carriages. It then showed in its center a cane, lighting support the citrus. Then he had a duck pond and subsequently supports a fountain, made with volcanic stones, where the figure of a bird with open wings stood.

At one time it was popularly known as 'la Plaza de la Piedra del Rey ', because there was an attempt to place a monument to General O Donell in this place and take advantage of King Alfonso XIII's stay in the city so that put the first stone of it. The act took place on March 29, 1906. And although the government gave the bust of the illustrious Tinerfe or in January 1907, the project did not go ahead.

Subsequently works were carried out ...

THE REHABILITATION OF THE PLAZA DE LOS PATOS; H. del Pino, LA OPINI N DE TENERIFE, Tuesday, January 31, 2017.

GILBERTO ALEM N DE ARMAS: Santa Cruz, step by step. HE City Council of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 2001.

FRANCISCO GALANTE G MEZ: Canarian Architecture, Edit.Edirca, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 1989

Editorial and research team : Architecture Unit of the CICOP Foundation.

Miguel ngel Fern ndez Matr n.

Jos Luis D will read Mart nez.

Sendy Hern ndez lvarez.

Photograph: Jos M. Bossini Ruiz.

The square has undergone various transformations throughout its history. Built between 1913 and 1917, it was conceived as a roundabout, as a meeting point for four streets with six accesses. Modest in its proportions in the opinion of Professor Alejandro Cioranescu, its originality comes from the discretion of its surroundings, but above all the provincial charm of its source, its ceramic benches and the freshness of the shadow.

It had an in-depth rehabilitation between 1990 and 1991 and in 2017 after the approval of the rehabilitation project with the approval of the Historical Heritage Service of the Cabildo, as well as of the Insular Commission of Historical Heritage, proceed to comprehensive rehabilitation with an estimated duration of nine months.

The square is characterized by the presence of a central fountain with nine water outlets, of which eight are perimetral that leave some frogs, the ninth leaves the duck that is in the center. The fountain is a replica of the Fountain of the Frogs of the Sevillian Park of Mar de Luisa.

In the square there are six large planters, four small circular planters and twenty benches whose tiles were replaced in the remodeling of 1991. It has a bronze sculpture of a goose on the back of a turtle in the center, and eight painted ceramic frogs.

INTERVENTION HISTORY

The Plaza de los Patos has been intervened several times in order to carry out renovation and conservation work. In July 1987, a small reform was carried out in some of the banks, but without much importance. In February 1991, a general and complete reform was studied, beginning on April 4 of the same year and ending on May 20, 1991, obtaining the reception act on June 24, 1991. The technicians in charge of this intervention were as architect Loreto Aris Alonso and as technical architect Edmundo Trujillo. To carry out the work, a reproduction of all the ceramic pieces of the pavement, benches, gardens and numerical fountain, and making all the drawings by hand, had to be sent to a factory in Seville. All this tile was given to the Afensa company that in turn hired the Menseque company, being the Tramosi contract manager.