Garachico:Places of Interest

Garachico: Places of interest

The following list of monuments and places of interest is reflected in the plan of Garachico (see Downloads)
1. Chapel of St. Rock (San Roque)
2. Casa de los Marqueses de Villafuerte (Family seat of the Marquesses of Villafuerte)
3. Former seventeenth-century Convent of St. Domingo de Guzmán, Contemporary Art Museum,       Municipal Auditorium
4. El Lamero Estate (ancestral home)
5. Los Molinos (former watermills), monument to wine spillage
6. I. F. P. de Garachico (Secondary School)
7. Eighteenth-century Cloistered Convent of the Conceptionist-Franciscan Nuns
8. Family seat of the Ponte Family
9. Hotel San Roque (former Casa Noriega)
10. Former Augustinian Convent of St. Julian
11. Former sixteenth-century Convent of St. Francis of Assisi (present-day Casa de la Cultura), Natural Science Museum, Municipal Library, Exhibition Hall
12. Garachico Town Hall
13. Home of the Marquesses of the Quinta Roja (present-day Hotel La Quinta)
14. Great house of the Counts of La Gomera
15. Plaza de la Libertad and Monument to Simón Bolívar
16. Sixteenth-century Mother Church of St. Anne
17. Plaza de Juan González de la Torre
18. Puerta de Tierra (Entrance to the former harbour buried in the volcanic eruption of 1706), Poets’ Corner, Monument to Cristóbal Ponte
19. Sixteenth-century Chapel of Our Lady of los Reyes
20. Sixteenth-century St. Michael’s Castle
21. El Limonero craftwork centre and Tourist Office
22. Playa del Muelle (beach) - Tensei Tenmoku Sculpture
23. Monument to the Canary Island Emigrant
24. Sixteenth-century Church of St. Peter of Daute
25. El Caletón (natural swimming pools)