Environmentalist and geographer Raimundo Quintal, founder of the Association of Friends of the Ecological Park of Funchal, took to his Facebook page on Thursday, the 7th of May, to express his “indignation” at the “very poor Flower Exhibition,” integrated in the Flower Festival.
In the publication, the former councillor responsible for the Environment, Education, and Science of the Funchal City Council reports that at the Flower Exhibition, which had been on display since the 30th of April, was nothing more than “a pile of rotting vegetation after a week after the pompous inauguration.”
“Gentlemen of the Regional Government, I ask you a huge favour: close that thing immediately,” appeals Raimundo Quintal, proposing as an alternative the promotion of “guided tours in the Municipal Garden, in the Santa Catarina Park and in the gardens of Quinta Vigia, which are very beautiful and are worthy representatives of Madeira.”
Raimundo Quintal ends by asking about the cost to the treasury of the “sad figure mounted in Largo da Restauração”.
Samantha Gannon
info at madeira-weekly.com
Photo: JM/Raimundo Quintal
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