The Kings ask for distance and a mask for those who attend the parade

JAVIER DARRIBA Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

The Three Kings will not only come this year loaded with gifts but also with a particular request in response to the health situation we are experiencing due to covid-19. It was the president of the Casa de Galicia, Albino Aneiros, who acted as spokesperson for Melchor, Gaspar and Baltasar this Tuesday: «We call on the responsibility of the attendees to come to the parade with a mask and to respect, in what possible, the safety distance.

The request was made during the delivery of the four Volkswagen Amarok pickups, V6 engine, with which the Domingo Alonso group has been collaborating for the last five years in the development of the parade in the capital. "At first they were used to carry the mailboxes in which the letters were collected," explains the manager of commercial Volskwagen for the Canary Islands, Benigno Hernández, "and in recent years we transported the Kings."

As it is a model that is no longer manufactured -because the new one will arrive in the Canary Islands in 2023- it has had to have the collaboration of three individuals, while the fourth vehicle was still in the facilities of Domingo Alonso. "We've been working on the cars for a week, on the lettering," he added.

These vehicles will form part of the royal entourage that will transport the Three Wise Men throughout the city and will complete a Post Office van, the Christmas float, a fire truck and the police escort, which will be in charge of marking the step and regulating the crossings so that the mini cavalcade does not split.

the cavalcade

Remember that the tour starts at 11:30 a.m. from the castle of La Luz and will go through the streets Juan Rejón, Albareda, Parque de Santa Catalina, León y Castillo, Parque de San Telmo and Francisco Gourié to reach the Pérez Galdós Theater and Go up the downtown highway (GC 110) to the El Batán roundabout. After touring the neighborhood, the delegation will go down the GC 110 and visit San Juan. You will take the downtown highway again to join the Avenida Marítima through the Mercado de Vegueta, Alcalde Díaz Saavedra Navarro, reach Hoya de la Plata and enter through Pedro Hidalgo. In Tres Palmas you will go up to Calle Andrés Alvarado Janina. And then it will go in the direction of Martín Freire and Paseo de San José. It will go down Eufemiano Jurado to Córdoba Street and will end the morning tour on Málaga Street, around 3:00 p.m.

The royal entourage will depart again in the afternoon from the La Minilla Shopping Center, at 4:00 p.m., to tour the upper area of ​​the city, crossing the streets of Habana, Carretera de Chile, Almansa, Simancas, Plaza del Pilar, Numancia, José Sánchez Peñate, the Alfredo Kraus Auditorium roundabout and José Sánchez Peñate again to enter the Autovía del Norte. Once you arrive at the roundabout of the Doctor Negrín Hospital, you will go along the first section of Avenida Juan Carlos I to the neighborhood of El Pilar, La Feria del Atlántico, Las Borreras, Avenida Pintor Felo Monzón and Hoya Andrea. It will continue to Tamaraceite (GC 300) until it reaches the bus station and circulate through Lucy Cabrera Suárez and Pintor Pepe Dámaso streets to return through Lomo Los Frailes, Almatriche, Recta de los Tarahales, La Paterna and Lomo Apolinario. It will continue through Cruz de Piedra, Avenida de Escaleritas, Zaragoza, Don Pedro Infinito and Doctor Marañón. You will go to Miller Bajo via Divina Pastora to the Castillo de Mata Museum. You will take the Carretera General del Norte in the direction of El Polvorín. It will continue through Las Rehoyas, the Electra roundabout and will pass through Mariucha, Obispo Romo, Zaragoza, Echegaray and Barranquillo de Don Zoilo streets to conclude at Paseo de Chil.

"It will go as slowly as possible," they explain from the organization, which remembers that children will not be allowed to approach the Three Wise Men to deliver letters or sucks. There will also be no candy distribution.

charity campaign

The passage of the entourage will test traffic management on roads that already have a high degree of saturation these days due to Christmas shopping. In any case, as the cuts will be punctual and successive, it is expected that the impact on circulation will be somewhat milder than in a traditional cavalcade.

We will also have to be attentive to the weather since the forecasts of the State Meteorological Agency is that the skies are overcast and that there are some drizzles. The situation will worsen on January 6, when the second part of the parade is scheduled, which will run, starting at 09:00, through Albareda, Presidente Alvear and León y Castillo until reaching Munguía to join the GC 1 motorway. in the direction of Ramblas de Jinámar, Marzagán, Los Hoyos road and Tafira Alta. You will take the GC 110 towards Fondillo, Lomo Blanco, San Lorenzo, Piletas, La Suerte, Ciudad del Campo, Las Mesas, Tenoya, Los Giles, Ladera Alta, Casa Ayala, Costa Ayala, Tinoca and La Isleta. This second cavalcade will be smaller and will only have the presence of the Three Wise Men.

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