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La Orotava
A hillside town of cobbled streets and mansions with carved wooden balconies, above a valley of banana groves.
- Open
- Always
- Price
- Free
- Time Needed
- Half a day
- Address
- Plaza del Ayuntamiento, 38300 La OrotavaDirections
- Getting There
- About 15 minutes by car or bus above Puerto de la Cruz.
Why Go
The town grew rich on sugar and wine, and its 17th-century houses keep their balconies and courtyards of Canarian pine. Terraced gardens step down the hill, and at Corpus Christi the town hall square is carpeted with huge pictures made from colored volcanic sand from Teide.
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