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La Guancha
Tenerife

Calle la Alhóndiga / Calle Cruz de los Claveles
(Plazoleta Ángeles Machado)

Ángeles Machado Machado

1900 - 1937
became in 1921 the teacher at the first primary school for girls in La Guancha

Emilio Luis Pérez Delgado
1971

Description

Fountain with on a column the head of Ángeles Machado, and in a wall a stone relief of the legend of La Guancha: During the conquest, a Castilian captain spotted a beautiful Guanche woman drawing water from a source, who ran away so quickly that he could not catch her - and of course, he never saw her again. The relief shows the guanche girl at a stream, with in the backgroup a cactus and working volcano.

Inscription(s)

ANGELES MACHADO
Y MACHADO
maestro
1900-1937
"su escuela fue el pueblo"

Ángeles Machado
y Machado
Teacher
1900-1937
"His school was the village"

Signature

Emilio Luis

Sculptor

Emilio Luis Pérez Delgado, Canarian sculptor from Puerto de la Cruz.

Sources & Information

Ayuntamiento de La Guancha, Patrimonio Cultural.
Ayuntamiento de La Guancha, Obras de mejora en la Plazoleta Ángeles Machado.

Locatie (N 28°22'26" - W 16°39'10") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: esca627; Photograph: 2 February 2020
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