Los Realejos · What to see
Cascos históricos de Los Realejos
Los Realejos grew up around the camps of the last stage of the conquest and keeps two old centres listed as historic ensembles, Realejo Alto and Realejo Bajo. In Realejo Alto, the church of Apóstol Santiago, regarded as the first Catholic church in Tenerife, holds the font where the Guanche kings were baptised and the Santa Bárbara altarpiece. Realejo Bajo grew out of the 15th-century Hacienda de los Príncipes, centres on the church of La Concepción and still keeps 70% of its historic fabric. The house where the writer Viera y Clavijo was born in 1731 is also a listed site.
- 22 min · 18.9 kmFrom Icod old town
- Half a dayIt takes
- Los RealejosMunicipality
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28.3810° N · 16.5856° O
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01Practical details
- Protection
- Realejo Alto and Realejo Bajo, Sites of Cultural Interest, historic-ensemble category
- El Realejo Alto historic ensemble
- declared a BIC by the Canary Islands Government in May 2014
- El Realejo Bajo historic ensemble
- declared in 2005
- Church of Apóstol Santiago
- a place of worship recorded in 1496; Site of Cultural Interest since 1983
- Church of Nuestra Señora de La Concepción
- BIC, Monument category, 2003
- Viera y Clavijo's birthplace
- 1731; Site of Cultural Interest; Viera y Clavijo, 101
- Hacienda de los Príncipes
- 15th century; Site of Cultural Interest
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03Around
What you have nearby
Ordered by real distance between coordinates, not by our preference.
Paisaje Protegido de Los Campeches, Tigaiga y Ruiz
A 691-hectare protected area between Los Realejos and San Juan de la Rambla, made up of deep ravines such as Barranco de Ruiz, coastal cliffs around 500 m high and former sea cliffs left inland by later eruptions. Tree heath covers much of the slope, with cardón-and-tabaiba scrub lower down and cloud forest from about 600 m; potatoes, wheat and fruit are still grown. It is a Special Protection Area for birds, and its most notable wildlife includes the laurel and Bolle's pigeons.
Mirador de La Corona
A viewpoint on a summit of the Tigaiga massif, 750 m above sea level, looking across the full width of the Orotava Valley. There is a take-off ramp for paragliding and hang-gliding, and several footpaths start here. The cross was put up in 1922 at the wish of some Realejo Bajo residents who had escaped unharmed from an accident nearby.
Mirador de El Lance
A viewpoint beside Icod el Alto, at km 5 of the TF-342, the road that winds down to Los Realejos. It takes in the Orotava Valley and its three municipalities: Los Realejos, Puerto de la Cruz and La Orotava. A bronze statue of the Guanche king Bentor by Carmen Luis León (1996) stands here; tradition holds that he threw himself from this spot rather than be taken by the Castilian troops.
Mirador de San Pedro
Coastal viewpoint in Los Realejos beside the TF-5 (km 41) and the San Pedro Apóstol chapel, near San Vicente. It looks over the palm grove of the Rambla de Castro Protected Landscape, the banana plantations of the Rambla del Mar, the Hacienda de los Castro and the old La Gordejuela water-pumping house. The Rambla de Castro and Castro beach are a short distance away.
Plans
Plans that pass through here
Experiences and itineraries that share places with this page.
- PlanGarachico at duskThe town once the coaches leave: a walk through the listed old quarter, the seafront with the pools below, and dinner at one of its twenty-nine restaurants.
- PlanA glass of wine before heading backA winery of the Ycoden-Daute-Isora DO with a booked visit, the wine museum on Plaza de la Pila and dinner in the old town. Wine afternoon, ten minutes away.
- PlanA slow-breakfast morningThe only breakfast in the district with published hours, Garachico's farmers' market on a Sunday, and back to the house with the shopping. No hurry.
- PlanA morning of mystery in IcodA 27,000-year-old lava tube, a tree whose age nobody knows and the port the lava swallowed in 1706. For travellers who come looking for stories.
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Finca Julia · Icod de los Vinos
And at the end of the day,
the terrace.
An old Canarian house on the hillside, with the Atlantic in front. Availability and price are on the official Airbnb listing.