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Historical Tour City of Santa Cruz de La Palma
Historical Tour City of Santa Cruz de La Palma
Historical Tour City of Santa Cruz de La Palma
Historical Tour City of Santa Cruz de La Palma
Historical Tour City of Santa Cruz de La Palma

Historical Tour City of Santa Cruz de La Palma

By Hello La Palma
Free cancellation available
Price is S$18 per adult
Features
  • Free cancellation available
  • 2h
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  • Multiple languages
Overview

Santa Cruz de La Palma, capital of the island, has been declared in its entirety as an Asset of Cultural Interest with the category of Complex
Historical-Artistic.
It is a place worth visiting for its colonial style. Its streets
cobbled streets, stately houses with interior patios, charming squares and
wooden balconies adorned with flowers.
Its O'Daly Street and Anselmo Pérez Brito Street and O'Daly Street (Street
Real) form the two main areas that we will pass through to complete our tour. Commercial and historical nerve centre of the Capital

Activity location

  • Plaza de Vandale
    • Calle Vandale
    • 38700, Santa Cruz de la Palma, Spain

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • C. Anselmo Pérez de Brito, 14
    • 14 Calle Anselmo Pérez de Brito
    • 38700, Santa Cruz de la Palma, Canarias, Spain

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Walking Tour Historical City
  • Activity duration is 2 hours2h2h
  • English
Starting time: 10:30
Price details
S$17.66 x 1 AdultS$17.66

Total
Price is S$17.66
Until Fri, 10 Jan

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's includedTickets are free
  • What's excludedWhat's excludedIf you wish to enter the Naval Museum at the end of the Tour, the price will be €4.

Know before you book

  • Wheelchair accessible
  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Service animals allowed
  • Public transport options are available nearby
  • Transport options are wheelchair accessible
  • All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Activity itinerary

Plaza de Vandale
  • 5m
Located on an old site where the Captain Jacques de Brier. When the The City Council acquired the site and named it Vandale in homage to the famous lineage of origin Flemish. Its paving stands out, made of callao, pebbles or rounded edges from the coast of the Island. The botany, with its flamboyant trees, famous in the world for its characteristic foliage and flowers orange-red in colour. In the centre, the only Lo Divino Monument in Spain, bronze work, in homage to the Christmas string and voice groups that early morning run through the 9 nights prior to Christmas Easter
Santa Cruz de la Palma
  • 10m
First Democratic City Council in Spain elected by universal suffrage. Built in 1567 after a fire that destroyed part of the City in 1953, its 2-story façade is the best example of Civil Renaissance architecture of the Canary Islands. The spectacular mural stands out in the hollow of the staircase, work of master Cossío. Of its Heritage, the Royal Banner of the Island of La Palma, as well as a seat of 17th century country wood and portraits of the Catholic Monarchs.
Plaza De Espana
  • 10m
Considered the best style set Renaissance of the Canary Islands. He has used both religious events, as a meeting point between citizens to Plaza Mayor. Open to the most commercial street, it houses properties of great beauty such as the House Monteverde, 17th century, Casa Lorenzo, century XVIII. Also, the Public Fountain, from 1588, the Church and Bell Tower El Salvador. Centre of the Plaza presided over by the Monument to Father Manuel Díaz, a key figure in politics, education, culture and charity at the beginning of the XIX century.
Iglesia Matriz de El Salvador
  • 15m
Place of worship where one of the most important legacies of art flamenco of the world. Founded in the year 1500, it consists of 3 naves separated from each other, by half arches point and Mudejar style roof which It gives it an arabesque air. With countless art pieces, gothic elements, renaissance and baroque of extreme beauty
Sociedad La Investigadora (El Casino)
  • 5m
Headquarters of the Research Society, old family mansion Massieu-Sotomayor with interesting decorations, highlighting the living room Mudejar style, the room where they met the Masons of the Island, current disseminator of philanthropy, symbology and philosophy that attracted numerous lodges during the 19th and 20th centuries.
Plaza La Alameda
  • 15m
Conceived in the second third of the 19th century as place of recreation and public leisure, is populated by Indian laurels and araucarias originating from the Argentine and Chilean Patagonia through 2 lengths side hallways designed for walking. In the centre, it presides over the La Alameda Kiosk, octagonal floor plan and arabesque columns, stand out its sash windows and its windows with coloured borders. Dating from 1893, it commemorates the IV Centennial of the founding of the capital. On May 3, 1493, Captain General Alonso de Lugo fulfilled the tradition of nail a wooden cross to the shore of the Barranco celebrating a mass in success of the Castilian campaign. The Cross is decorated with flowers every 3 May.
Museo Naval - Barco de la Virgen (Pass by)
Located next to the Castle of the Virgin, to representation of the Dialogue every 5 years between the Nave and said Castle. Its promoters, descendants of sailors, shipbuilders and collectors of maritime objects, they took as an example the Nao Santa María, which Columbus took to America. Its interior houses the Naval Museum, with materials of various genres that portray maritime life local (maps, marine charts, ship models built in the city's shipyards). End of the tour, you will be able to access the museum upon payment therein.
Real Castillo de Santa Catalina
  • 10m
Ancient defensive system composed of several bastions, walls and portals access to the city from the north and south. In its entrance, a curvilinear pediment topped with the coat of arms of the Kings Catholics. With a quadrangular plant and tips of diamond in its four corners, in 1951 It was declared a Historical Monument Artistic by Decree fortress from the which repels the attacks of pirates and French and English privateers (patapalo, LeClercq...).
Balcones de la avenida Maritima
  • 10m
Painted with pen, oil or watercolour by artists and photographers from all over the world. These balconies of wood constitute the best set of outcrops of the Canary Islands. Its peculiarity comes for its “double balconies” of influence lusitanian That reminds us of the adufas Portuguese. It was a resource designed for the ventilation of the homes, thus taking advantage the famous trade winds that bathe our coast. Many of them have at the extremes a covering board that served as a toilet or toilet and whose fecal waters fell directly into the ocean that reached there.

Location

Activity location

  • LOB_ACTIVITIESLOB_ACTIVITIESPlaza de Vandale
    • Calle Vandale
    • 38700, Santa Cruz de la Palma, Spain

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLEC. Anselmo Pérez de Brito, 14
    • 14 Calle Anselmo Pérez de Brito
    • 38700, Santa Cruz de la Palma, Canarias, Spain

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