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What to see and do in Fuencaliente de la Palma

What to see and do in Fuencaliente de la Palma (La Palma, Santa Cruz de Tenerife): 8 places across monuments, nature, activities and curiosities, with a photo and a Google Maps location.

1 Villages · 2 Monuments · 2 Nature · 1 Activities · 1 Historical milestones · 1 Food and drink

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What to see and do in Fuencaliente de la Palma

Fuencaliente de la Palma
Village
A municipality at the southern tip of La Palma, shaped by historic eruptions in 1646, 1677, 1712 and 1971, with more than two-thirds of its area under some form of environmental protection. It broke away from Villa de Mazo in 1837, and its name recalls a hot spring now buried.
Iglesia de San Antonio Abad
Monument
A church declared a Bien de Interés Cultural (Spain's highest level of heritage protection) in the settlement of Los Canarios, the capital of the municipality.
Faro y salinas de Fuencaliente
Monument
A complex formed by the Fuencaliente lighthouse, on the municipality's western coast, and the adjoining salt flats, protected as a site of scientific interest for their landscape value and their role in traditional salt production.
Volcán Teneguía
Nature
It erupted between 26 October and 18 November 1971. Until the 2021 eruption on La Palma, it was the most recent to occur on Spanish territory, and its cone is today one of the landmarks on the Ruta de los Volcanes.
Volcán y mirador de San Antonio
Nature
A volcano within the Reserva Natural de los Volcanes de Fuencaliente, home to an interpretation centre and a viewpoint used for astronomical observation, on an island covered by the 1988 Sky Law and declared a Starlight Reserve.
La Fuente Santa
Historical milestone
A hot spring with medicinal properties, already known to the aboriginal islanders, which gave the municipality its name and attracted such a flow of visitors that the settlement of Las Indias grew up beside it. The lava flow from the San Antonio volcano buried it under some 70 metres of lava in 1677; a team of engineers from the Government of the Canary Islands relocated it in 2005 via a 200-metre tunnel next to the beach of Echentive.
La Ruta de los Volcanes
Activity
A trail of around 23-24 kilometres that follows stage 3 of the GR-131, between the Refugio de El Pilar (El Paso) and the Fuencaliente lighthouse, crossing seven volcanoes of the Parque Natural de Cumbre Vieja with a cumulative descent of close to 2,000 metres.
El vino malvasía de la Denominación de Origen La Palma
Food and drink
Aromatic malvasía is grown chiefly in the municipalities of Fuencaliente and Villa de Mazo, on volcanic soils, producing a sweet wine that has for centuries been a benchmark wine of the archipelago. The Denominación de Origen La Palma, which protects this and other wines from the island, was officially recognised by ministerial order of 17 June 1994.