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Tacoronte is a city and municipality of Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain. It is located in the north-east of the island. Mostly rural, the municipality stretches for 30 square kilometers from the volcanic peaks that rise in the center of the island to the Atlantic shore. The municipality seat, also called Tacoronte, lies about 16 km west of the capital, Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Old manorial houses and farms are situated here, as well as vineyards that produce the wine known as Tacoronte-Acentejo.
The TF-5 motorway passes through the municipality. The Tenerife North Airport is 4 km to the east.
Tacoronte is a toponym of Guanche origin, believed to be derived from Tagoror, meaning "place where the Council of Elders meets". Its territory constituted an ancient menceyato, as the Guanche kingdoms were known, ruled by the mencey Acaymo. After the Spanish conquest of Tenerife, the area was settled by the Portuguese Sebastián Machado, who founded the town of Tacoronte around the hermitage of Santa Catalina that he had built. The town grew during succeeding centuries and in 1911, Alfonso XIII of Spain granted the town the status of municipio.
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El exconvento de San Agustín y Santuario del Santísimo Cristo de los Dolores y Agonía de Tacoronte está situado en el término municipal de Tacoronte, isla de Tenerife (Canarias, España). Es bien de interés cultural, con categoría de monumento, desde 2006.
Convento secularizadoBien de interés cultural
La iglesia parroquial de Santa Catalina Mártir de Alejandría es la iglesia matriz del municipio de Tacoronte (isla de Tenerife, Islas Canarias, España). Es bien de interés cultural, con categoría de monumento, desde 2016.
IglesiaBien de interés cultural
Conjunto históricoBien de interés cultural
Yacimiento arqueológicoBien de interés cultural
Yacimiento arqueológicoBien de interés cultural
Iglesia
Iglesia
Yacimiento
Mirador
Naturaleza
Naturaleza
Monuments from Wikidata; summaries from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA) and photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited to their authors.
8 plans to experience Tacoronte on the move, not just passing through.
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Places and plans from OpenStreetMap (ODbL): what is mapped within the municipal boundary, by name. If something is missing, it can be added there and will appear here in the next update.
What there really is in the village and around it, with distances. If an activity isn't on this list, we haven't found it nearby.
