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What to see and do in San Andrés y Sauces

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

1 Villages · 3 Monuments · 3 Nature · 1 Historical milestones

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What to see and do in San Andrés y Sauces

San Andrés y Sauces
Village
A municipality in northeastern La Palma, corresponding to the old canton of Adeyahamen, whose San Andrés settlement was the island's second most populous, after the capital, during the 16th and 17th centuries, before Los Sauces overtook it in the 20th century.
Iglesia de San Andrés Apóstol
Monument
One of the oldest churches in the Canary Islands, documented as a parish since 1515 and declared a Bien de Interés Cultural (Spain's highest level of heritage protection) in 1986. It preserves a Mudéjar ceiling, a Baroque altarpiece and a 17th-century Flemish image of Nuestra Señora del Rosario.
Bosque de Los Tilos
Nature
Declared in 1983 the first Biosphere Reserve in the Canary Islands, it is one of the best-preserved examples of Macaronesian laurisilva in the region, with a visitor centre and a waymarked trail up to the Espigón Atravesado viewpoint.
Marcos y Cordero
Nature
A hiking route that follows the water springs of the same name through a system of thirteen tunnels cut into the rock, considered one of the most visually striking on La Palma.
Charco Azul
Nature
Natural seawater pools with a waterfall and a children's pool, included in 2012 among the ten best natural pools in Spain in a press ranking.
Cueva de El Tendal
Historical milestone
An archaeological site and Bien de Interés Cultural (Spain's highest level of heritage protection), the most important on La Palma, with nine dwelling caves and two necropolises; the earliest date obtained by thermoluminescence goes back to the 4th century BC.
Viaducto de Los Tilos
Monument
Opened in December 2004, it is the largest single-arch bridge in Spain, 350 metres long and more than 150 metres above the Barranco del Agua.
Monumento al Infinito
Monument
An eleven-metre-tall sculpture beside the LP-4 road, the only work by César Manrique on La Palma, unveiled in 1985 together with the Roque de los Muchachos Astrophysical Observatory.