La Palma

Santa Cruz de La Palma - Puerto is the starting point of this tour.

We will travel along the coastline of the city to get to the highest area of the municipality. There we will visit the The Royal Island Shrine of Nuestra Señora La Virgen de Las Nieves, one of the oldest Marian statue in the Canary Islands, sculpted in the 14th century and worshiped by the people of La Palma. The temple is a veritable sacred art museum which has some of the most important Flemish sculptures in Spain on display.

After this stop, we will continue our way to La Concepción Viewpoint from where you can enjoy the best panoramic views of the capital city, Santa Cruz de la Palma, at an altitude of 400 metres above sea level.  

The route will take us across the summit on a path surrounded by chestnut trees and Monteverde until we reach the well-known "time tunnel", so called by the local due to the abrupt temperature changes at both ends, humid on the east and dry on the west coast. 

After a stop at the Caldera de Taburiente Visitor Centre, we will ascend to almost 1.300 metres to the La Cumbrecita Viewpoint, one of the privileged points of the area due to its great beauty and glorious views of vastness of the Caldera de Taburiente National Park, the real natural gem of the island of La Palma. The Caldera de Taburiente is an  8 km diameter crater, home to most of the endemic species of La Palma and whose maximum height rises to 2.426 metres above sea level. Once there, we can take an easy walk to the Lomo de las Chozas Viewpoint, offering stunning views of the Caldera. 

After our visit to the Cumbrecita Viewpoint, we will descend to the village of El Paso to make a quick stop at the Tajuya Viewpoint, from where we can see the volcano that erupted in Cumbre Vieja in 2.021, which still has no official name, a little more than 2 km away.