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 […]
Iglesia de San Bartolomé
This parish church was built at the end of the 17th century and forms part of the heritage of the village of El Río. It was in the year 1674 that the people agreed that San Bartolomé Apóstol should be their patron saint, but the current image did not appear until the year 1691 (Author: […]
La Iglesia de San Juan Bautista (Villa de Arico)
Property of Cultural Interest, with the category of Historic-Artistic Monument, 1985. This church stands on the edge of the Plaza de Los Condes de Santa María de Abona and is one of the main architectural elements of the historic centre of Villa de Arico and its municipality, declared an Asset of Cultural Interest with the […]
Ecomuseo de la piedra de Arico
This place can be visited along a circular path of great ethnographic value that runs along the edges of the so-called Barranco de Bijagua ravine and which constitutes the so-called Museo de la Piedra de Arico (Arico Stone Museum). It can be reached from the centre of Tajao itself, heading N-NE along the coastal strip, […]
Arico el Viejo
The name of Arico el Viejo seems to have arisen from the need to differentiate it from the one known as “el Nuevo”, thus giving the municipality, together with the Villa de Arico, three nuclei of the same name: the so-called “Tres Aricos” (Three Aricos). The emergence and development of Arico el Viejo must have […]
Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de las Mercedes
This sanctuary is the vestige of the oldest religious establishment established in the territory of Abona and, therefore, in the whole of the southeast of the island of Tenerife. It is reported that even before the construction of the first hermitage in the early 1500s, an image had already appeared on the Abona beach, possibly […]
Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Luz (Arico Nuevo)
The construction of this simple and humble temple dates back to 1768, being built in the centre of the old historic centre of Arico Nuevo by its noble inhabitants; Martínez de la Peña affirms that its modest construction was due to the coincidence with the construction of their own houses and with the works that […]
