After a pleasant meeting in the living room of the Tomalá family home, which celebrated its first 100 years of age this July, the Citizen Heritage Watch was formed by cultural managers and citizens interested in the care, conservation, restoration and enhancement of the heritage assets of our province.
Experts in archaeological, communication and cultural management issues, as well as a population eager to ensure that these sites, which have special importance in the cultural context and in the care of the historical memory of our community, are respected, issued comments and ideas that, as a first objective, marked the declaration of the aforementioned property as a Heritage asset.
According to the complaint made by Mrs. Martha Tomalá (hereditary inhabitant of the property), there are certain interests - a bit dark/economic on the part of a chain of stores with the interest of acquiring the land where the house is built (since a high percentage of the house is built on municipal land.
The house and the land are included in the inventory of cultural heritage, so it is not possible that they intend to sell it; if this were the case, it would be a criminal offense that also includes the immediate dismissal of the official who intends to carry out this action, according to archaeologist Erick López. Therefore, the Municipality of La Libertad only has to follow the procedure for the formalization of the patrimonial situation.
But the objectives set by the Veeduría are not limited only to the cultural aspect, speaking specifically of this building, but extend to a much broader one such as the archaeological heritage of our province, perhaps one of the largest in the country.
Another action is to immediately form a group on the most popular social networks called Citizen Heritage Watch of the Santa Elena Peninsula, to which the entire peninsular community is invited to join in order to have an actively participatory position on this issue, and from which all the progress and events that arise will be reported. The link to access the group is THIS
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