Municipality:
Tacoronte
History
After the conquest of the island, exactly in 1947 (the conquest ended on December 25, 1496) it is the date when the first bylines of distribution of this zone appeared, lands that were granted to Sebastián Machado, beneficiary of El Adelantado.
From this moment, the municipality is born in the environment of the current parish of Santa Catalina Mártir and is raised up to the convent Agustino del Cristo.
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| House |
This zone was under the dependence of the municipality of El Sauzal, until in the year 1569 it has a mayor of a small town and the limits of the same one were fixed. But it is not up to the arrival of the Liberalism that it turns into municipal corporation.
The shield of the city has a clear reference to the house of the founder, with five axes on field of gules, besides the heraldic crown, gallon of gold adorned with grapevine.
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| Tacoronte |
The main role of the municipality was the agricultural, in middle zones and next the coast there is cultivated the malavasía and the vidueño (both cultures had the same luck that the rest of the island with the Portuguese emancipation, its principal market in case of the vidueño).
The economic growth reaches was during the XVIIth. In 1618 the pósito is constituted ( a posito is a depot), which indicates the strength of the cerealistic sector wheat, barley, oats, rye and maize) and in 1685 there are constituted two granaries (store of cereals for the neighbors), only one of them continues is still constucted.
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| Tacoronte |
With the growth of the municipality, other small places were formed as San Jerónimo, San Juan, La Placeta and La Caridad between others.
Other one of the products of the zone were the chick-peas, potatoes, wools, cheese, honey, wax and fishing, but always having special weight in the economy the malvasía and the vidueño, which before the fall of the same one, the population was obliged to emigrate to find a better life. The only culture of wine that turns into excellency was red wine, whose varieties were planted at the end of the XVIIIth.
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| House |
Many of these inhabitants came back to Tacoronte, but also they send remittances, which became visible in the mansions of the zone and the donations of objects of worship to the church
Also here La Cochinilla ( for natural tinge) was cultivated, but it was not the sufficiently strong to relieve sorrow.
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| Town Hall |
It was a stop for the people who was going from La Laguna to the northern Tenerife. Exactly in 1901 it was the last stop of the streetcar, for what there appears a new urban environment of commercial nature, known as the Station.
In 1911 the King Alfonso XIII grants the title of City, it was immediately after a trip that he realized to the islands in 1906 and doing a stop in the missing person Hotel Camacho (hotel of the beginning of the 20th century constructed with the growth of the new urban environment).
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| Tacoronte |
Representative Buildings
Casco de Tacoronte: BIC in 1980. In the 18th century there would be formed in Tacoronte a powerful elite of rich emigrants, whose demographic growth would be notable.
In the urban area there stand out some typical housings of the architecture of this nobility. They were maisonettes, with windows of guillotine and balconies of wood. Many of this real estate are of rectangular floor with walls of masonry and several show extraordinary works in hewn stone.
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| House with Balcony |
El Calvario: Located in the street of El Calvary and the beginning of the street of La Herradería, one agrees on an islet of triangular plant. It is surrounded of pines (some people said that they are the vestiges of the limit of the former forest).
The niche is glazed and in the interior it is possible to find a set of images: San Juan, la Magdalena y la Dolorosa. The Christ is a modern donated image.
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| El Calvario |
La Alhónidiga: of rectangular form, two floors and walls of masonry. To the top floor it is necessary to acces for a exterior stairs. It was constructed in 1685, with the purpose of guarding the bushels of wheat for remedy of the common needs of the village of Tacoronte.
Nowadys the Public granary is destined to cultural purposes and, specially in benefit of everything what concerns the agriculture.
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| La Alhondiga |
La Casona: The Casona is one of the most ancient houses that are in Tacoronte. It was given the orders to construct in the 18th century, with the aim to found in the chaplaincy of the parish
Probably The Casona should the name to the great size of its structure, one of the most ancestral characteristics of the building. In its white front, stands out the balconada (balcony) that includes three large windows of the high floor and the roof.
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| La Casona |
Iglesia de Santa Catalina: BIC from 1986. This church is one of the best samples of the historical - artistic religious heritage.
They are three ships of stones separated by columns pseudotoscanas, with cruise, sacristy and a tower.
The covers of tiles to four waters are individualized for every ship, standing out the one that covers the major chapel and the cruise, to major height. In the interior, the armors of wood of torch.
The choir is of the 18th century, between the chapels, must be mentioned that of La Concepción, supported by the family Machado and roof with geometric decoration without policromar; that of El Rosario, with the altarpiece of major artistic quality of the temple; Las Animas of the last third of the XVIIIth.
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| Santa Catalina Church |
Iglesia del Santísimo Cristo de los Dolores y Exconvento: BIC 2006.
The north and principal front is worked in thin hewn stone. The convent, with the ships and attached cloister to the temple, also presents the main face.
This front is characterized also by the distribution and game of the masses been employed at the stone, brought together with the lightness of the whitewashed cloths, hollows of wood of torch and covers of tile as indicators of the Canary traditional architecture.
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| Santísimo Cristo Church |
Between the hermitages that we find in the zone, to emphasize that of
San Jerónimo (constructed in 1654,),
San Juan Bautista (1631) and
La Caridad (17th century and Parish from 1945).
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| San Juan Hermitage |
Other place of interest in the municipality it are La Fuentecilla - Juan Fernandez (archaeological place) and Acantilados de Tacoronte y Barranco de Guayonge (archaeological place).
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| Coast |
There have not been mentioned all the places that are located along this municipality, but the most important thing is to create the first impression on the zone to later visit them. As other already published municipalities and those who stay, they are only one small summary to wake the reader up this feeling of wanting to investigate more and to visit it.
