Free walking tour La Palma, Historic Centre

In this interesting Free Day Tour we will get to know the Historic Center of the Capital through a circular tour lasting approximately 2 hours.
From one of the most visited squares on the island, the only one with a monument to Los Divinos in Spain, Plaza Van Dale.

We will go first to the most famous balconies in the Canary Islands. We will continue our visit to El Castillete, the greatest representation of the fortress that the islanders opposed to the conquerors. Subsequently we will pass in front of the Naval Museum of S/C de La Palma , we will know firsthand the importance that the sea and naval construction had on the island of La Palma as well as having one of the 3 most important ports on the continent, we will meet its builders, sailors, collectors of marine pieces and shipbuilders who took as a reference the Nao Santa María under which Columbus discovered America, having within the Museum a large number of pieces and documents such as the correspondence of the time, appointment of officers and branch of La Palma of the Court of the Indies of the Island.

We continue with a visit to the Monument to the Nano in Plaza de la Alameda. We will pass in front of the Cross of the 3rd. We will walk along the second most commercial street of S/C de La Palma, C/ Anselmo Pérez de Brito, admiring the Caribbean-looking houses and remains of other fortresses in the small alleys that divide the streets.

We will go down the main street, C/ Real or C/ O`Daly in memory of one of the illustrious Irish visitors who came and lived on the island and we will enter the Church of El Salvador, cradle of the many Flemish tapestries XVI, In front of this church, we will visit the atrium and the grand staircase with coffered ceiling of the capital's Town Hall, the first municipality established democratically and by suffrage in all of Spain, as well as being one of the first 3 places in all of Spain where electricity arrived . We will continue along Calle Real and enter the Casa Cabrera and its monumental patio before entering another of the island's family palaces, the Palacio de Salazar. Finally we will go down to the old Post Office with the characteristic and much photographed ceramic mural of the Chilean Nitrate. We will end up at the La Luz elevator , a feat of engineering that allows us to climb an incredible slope in said glass and panoramic elevator that connects the historic center with one of the oldest and most beautiful neighborhoods, the Barrio de la Canela (Barrio de la Canela), known for the numerous sweets shops that existed in antiquity).

Itinerary

• Meeting point
• Balconies
• Santa Catalina Castle (castle)
• Barco de la Virgen, La Alameda and Cruz del Tercero
• Via Anselmo Pérez de Brito (Placeta Borrero, Società Nautica, Società La Investigadora…)
• O'Daly Street (known as Calle Real): Town Hall houses, Church of El Salvador, Casa Cabrera, Town Hall...