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What to see and do in Frontera

What to see and do in Frontera (El Hierro, Santa Cruz de Tenerife): 12 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

1 Villages · 3 Monuments · 5 Nature · 2 Activities · 1 Historical milestones

When to go to Frontera: festival calendar

August: Fiestas de Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria (Valle de El Golfo) (August 15)

How far each place is from the centre of Frontera

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What to see and do in Frontera

Frontera
Village
A municipality in the Valle de El Golfo, which broke away from Valverde in 1920. Within its territory lies the sanctuary of the island's patroness, and, until 2007, it also included La Restinga and El Pinar, which became independent of it that year.
Santuario Insular de Nuestra Señora de los Reyes
Monument
A church at La Dehesa de Sabinosa where El Hierro's patroness is venerated. The image arrived on the island in 1546 and was first installed in the so-called Cueva del Caracol or Cueva de la Virgen; the present sanctuary was built in 1577 and remodelled in the 18th century.
Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria
Monument
The parish church of the Valle de El Golfo, in Frontera, dedicated to the municipality's patroness.
Pozo de la Salud
Monument
A spring at Sabinosa, drilled between 1702 and 1704, whose mineral-medicinal waters were officially recognised as such in 1843-1844; they were even bottled and exported to Cuba and Puerto Rico.
El Sabinar
Nature
A forest of centuries-old junipers, some up to 500 years, on the La Dehesa plateau. The trade wind, which blows almost year-round from the same direction, has bent their trunks and crowns eastward into improbable shapes; the twisted juniper is today the symbol on the island's coat of arms.
Valle de El Golfo
Nature
A large natural amphitheatre formed by the collapse of the island's northern slope, and not by a crater, which today holds El Hierro's most fertile lowlands. The Risco de Jinama marks the geographic boundary between the valley and the upper plateau.
Pico de Malpaso
Nature
At around 1,500 metres, it is the highest summit on El Hierro.
Reserva Natural Integral de Mencáfete
Nature
An area of 463.9 hectares within the Parque Rural de Frontera, near Sabinosa, that preserves one of the last remnants of El Hierro's laurisilva and monteverde forest, with a high concentration of endangered endemic species. It holds the island's only permanent water spring.
Reserva Natural Especial de Tibataje
Nature
A protected natural area in the municipality of Frontera.
Segregación de Frontera
Historical milestone
The municipality of Frontera broke away from Valverde in 1920, taking the name of the Valle de El Golfo, by which it had been known.
Fiestas de Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria (Valle de El Golfo)
Activity
The patronal festival of Frontera, with a procession around the Montaña de Joapira.
Carnaval de Tigaday: los Carneros
Activity
The traditional Carnival of the Tigaday settlement, in Frontera, famous for the comparsa of the 'Carneros de Tigaday' (Tigaday Rams).