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The chapel of the island's patron saint. She is said to have provided rainwater during droughts.

Emblematic hermitage

Nice, quiet place. Good starting point for some hikes.

A hermitage was built near the Caracol, which houses the image and the shepherds on cold and humid nights. On Monday, April 25, 1577, the first mass was celebrated and sung in the Sanctuary of El Hierro, the current Insular Sanctuary of Our Lady of the Kings. Since then, an annual festival has been celebrated in honor of the Virgin of the Kings on April 25, a festival that continues to be celebrated to this day under the name of the Festival of the Shepherds.

The building is a jewel designed by César Manrique, the great Canarian architect who dedicated his life to creating organic spaces. At La Peña, Manrique used numerous plants, large windows and masonry ceilings to create a welcoming and fresh atmosphere. Inside, visitors can enjoy the exclusive Mirador de La Peña Restaurant, with its extensive menu of Canarian dishes made with products such as tropical pineapple and the excellent fresh fish produced by this island, declared a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve.

https://www.holaislascanarias.com/miradores/el-hierro/mirador-de-la-pena/ From the La Peña viewpoint, in Guarazoca (north of the island of El Hierro), you can see the consequences of an overwhelming prehistoric event: the gigantic landslide that created the El Golfo valley millennia ago. The cliffs of this enormous indentation, 15 kilometers wide and one and a half kilometers high, are covered with dense native vegetation. At its foot lies a volcanic plain with vineyards and fruit trees that ends in the blue Atlantic. From La Peña you can also see the virgin Roques de Salmor, sanctuary of endemic giant lizards.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evlwkpQ-hpY The Hermitage of the Virgin of the Kings in El Hierro is a place of great religious and cultural importance. Built in the 17th century to house the image of the Virgin of the Kings, patron saint of the island, it is the center of the Descent of the Virgin of the Kings, a key religious festival celebrated every four years. The hermitage, with a simple and traditional architectural style, is located in an impressive natural environment in La Dehesa. In addition to being a place of pilgrimage, it attracts visitors interested in the culture and traditions of El Hierro. La Bajada is a significant event that combines religious acts with traditional dance and music, reflecting the rich cultural heritage of the island.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akTUipMCRJsEl Mirador de El Julan opens to intoxicating panoramic views over the hillside, where we can appreciate its vertiginous slope, which advances in search of the cliff that kisses the Mar de Las Calmas. We observed incipient ravines and scarce vegetation, on a slope of young soils with the La Restinga volcano field blocking our view. It is made up of piles of volcanic materials of intermediate age. The eruptive centers carried out an important mixed activity during the second interval of this series, in such a way that the emitted products superficially covered the entire slope, burying the primitive relief that in some points emerges as islets, and imprinting a particular morphology on the whole. .