Felipe VI highlights his "closeness and affection" to the palm in the delivery of the gold medal to the Parliament of the Canary Islands

Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Oct 7.(Press Europa) -

King Felipe VI shown this Thursday the "closeness and affection" of the Royal House to the Island of La Palma, which still lives the effects of volcanic eruption, during the delivery of the gold medal of the Canarian Academy of Fine ArtsSan Miguel Arcángel to the Parliament of the Canary Islands.

In a brief closing speech of the act in the plenary hall, the citizens of La Palma has been agreed "that are suffering" the consequences of the eruption and highlighted their "pleasure" for delivering the medal to the president of Parliament, Gustavo Matos, at a "special" moment in which the Chamber celebrates the 40 years of parliamentarism-they are fulfilled in 2022-and the archipelago "suffers" the effects of the old summit volcano.

Felipe VI, who has been accompanied by the Ministers of Health and Tourism and Industry, Carolina Darias and Reyes Maroto, has valued the role of Parliament in "coexistence and collaboration" with citizens and institutions.

The president of Parliament, Gustavo Matos, has stressed that the medal was granted to Parliament "in times of great uncertainty and caution" for the impact of sanitary pandemia, which thanks to the "effort" of the country is left behind.

He has honored the medal at the eight islands of the archipelago and remembered the Palmero people, especially "to those who have lost everything under the volcano", urging to have a "collective commitment" with the reconstruction of the island.

Matos has also valued the support of the royal house with La Palma "from the first moment" and the role of the Royal Academy in the defense and preservation of art, with a project that has raffled "difficulties" and has adapted to the changes.

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He commented that the Royal Academy is a "weight entity" in the heritage of the Canary Islands and highlighted the position of the Parliament as a "meeting place" of art and culture when 40 years of parliamentarism are fulfilled in the islands, which defined as defined as"Four decades of social and cultural advances.

Carlos de Millán, former president of the Canarian Academy of Fine Arts San Miguel Arcángel, has made a historical tour of the creation and journey of the Canary Parliament and influenced in the "specificities" of the islands in relation to the rest of Spain.

The headquarters, an "emblematic building"

He also commented that the headquarters of the Parliament occupies an "emblematic building" in the heart of Santa Cruz de Tenerife that hosted a musical association and then conservatory of music, and houses in its rooms and corridors outstanding pictorial funds.

De Millán has commented that the delivery of the gold medal is a "tribute" to the "cooperative intelligence between the political and the cultural" that the Canarian chamber contains and stressed that the activity of the Royal Academy as a forum of artists and guardianship ofThe "Excellence" of the Fine Arts on the Islands.

In addition, he has taken advantage of his speech to desire a "long, happy and memorable" reign to Felipe VI.

The delivery of the Gold Medal also attended former presidents of the Autonomous Community and several presidents of Cabildo.

The institutional visit of Felipe VI to Tenerife continues with a meeting of the Canarian Tourism Council, in the same Parliament, and the closing, Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa.