Montaña de Tindaya explained

Tindaya
Elevation M:401
Location:Fuerteventura

The Montaña de Tindaya is a mountain in Fuerteventura, one of the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa. It was considered a sacred place by the pre-colonial local population, and is also known as the Sacred Mountain (Spanish; Castilian: Montaña Sagrada) today.

The mountain is the proposed site of Monument to Tolerance, an artwork conceived by the sculptor Eduardo Chillida (1924–2002), that would involve the excavation a large artificial cave. Local environmentalists objected to the project.[1], construction work on the site had not started.[2]

Notes and References

  1. News: Tremlett . Giles . Spanish island allows massive cave to be bored into 'magic' mountain . . 20 January 2011 . London.
  2. News: Hernández . B. . Fuerteventura renuncia a Tindaya . . 5 September 2019 . Las Palmas . es.