Iglesia de Santa Úrsula
Bien de Interés Cultural con la categoría de Monumento. 1986. The Church of Santa Úrsula, one of the first religious constructions in the south of Tenerife, had its origins in a primitive hermitage built in the first decades of the 16th century, parallel to the construction of the Casa Fuerte, under the patronage of Pedro […]
Antiguo Convento Franciscano de Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe y San Pablo
Bien de Interés Cultural con la categoría de Monumento. 1986. The convent was founded in 1679 on the initiative of the first Marquis of Adeje, Juan Bautista de Ponte y Pagés. Due to the population and economic dynamics of this area of the island, subject to a significant degree of isolation, the number of religious […]
Casa Fuerte
Bien de Interés Cultural con la categoría de Monumento. 1986In the middle of the 16th century, the last sugar mill on the island existed in Adeje, fed by the waters of the Barranco del Infierno ravine. This sugar mill was located in the Casa Fuerte before it was built and its production was the most […]
Barranco del Infierno
The name that this ravine adopts has to do with its abrupt character, as it is a path ascending through a gorge in the mountain that is increasingly narrow and steep, with a slope that reaches 324 meters above sea level in a few kilometers. The route of this spectacular place, accompanied by the sound […]
Mirador «El bailadero de las brujas»
Very close to the village of Adeje, just at the beginning of the path that runs along the course of the Barranco del Infierno ravine, we come across a rocky structure on one of the bends in the path that invites us to rest, with some staggered floors on which we can sit, and which […]
Molinos de Agua
Once the flow of water from the River Adeje was diverted, it was used to supply the town itself, to irrigate the sugar cane fields, as a driving force for the sugar mill and the water mills used to make gofio to supply the needs of the new town. The Molino de Arriba – vertical […]
Ruta del Agua. Lavaderos
There were some public laundries in Adeje where women, in addition to washing and disinfecting clothes, met with their neighbors, and the work became more bearable, as well as a ‘little place’ where they found out the news of the town. In the Municipal Historical Archive there is the record of the creation of these […]
Taucho
Asset of Cultural Interest with the category of Historical Complex. 2005 The Historical Complex of Taucho is located in the medians of the municipal area at about 900 meters above sea level. in an area that has experienced intense plowing since the 16th century, when the first Castilian settlers began to settle. Cereals, fruit trees […]
Conjunto histórico de “El Caserío de Icor”
Bien de Interés Cultural, with the category of Historic Site, 2005. The origins of this settlement go back to the 1500s, to the existence of a small village or Guanche family that lived in the area and took refuge in caves. Their descendants, who were probably married to the first “foreigners” to arrive on the […]
Casco histórico de La Villa de Arico
Bien de Interés Cultural, with the category of Casco histórico, 2005. The oldest buildings in this place, also known as El Lomo or “Lugar de Arriba”, date from before the foundation of the hamlet by Captain Juan González Gómez, among others (1590s). The previous huts and cave-houses, either natural or excavated, were the ones that […]
