Arrecife's Los Buches join the Alamo museum in Texas

The tradition of the Parranda Marinera de Los Buches, Arrecife's historic carnival group, will have a permanent place at the Alamo Museum in San Antonio, Texas, where a replica of the traditional costume and several pieces of island craftwork will be displayed.

Cabildo president Oswaldo Betancort received the item from the Asociación Parranda Marinera de Los Buches.

Why Texas of all places

San Antonio was founded in the eighteenth century by Canary Island families, and the museum devotes a whole area to that heritage. For Lanzarote it is recognition of a tradition born from the sea: buches are the dried fish bladders fishermen used as instruments, and they give the group its name.

Sources: Cabildo de Lanzarote; Asociación Parranda Marinera de Los Buches.