Recreation Gesta July 25

[2] This act begins each July 24 with the parade of local troops, in which the First Infantry Battalion of the Canary Islands and the Militias of the neighboring city of San Cristóbal de La Laguna involved.

On July 25 continue the activities that will recreate the fighting during the landing and in the street, and the final surrender of the troops of Admiral Horatio Nelson.

Fighting between Spanish troops, coordinated by Antonio Gutiérrez de Otero y Santayana and British troops, commanded by Admiral Nelson, they are recreated in the same places where they occurred over 218 years ago, i.e. around the Castle of St John the Baptist of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.

Recreation ends on the evening of 25, after holding a religious function[3] in the Parish of Our Lady of Conception, to commemorate the Gesta and patronage of St. James on the city.

During this ceremony a wreath is made in the tomb of General Antonio Gutiérrez located in the chapel of St. James in the same church.