Ermita de San Antonio Abad (monument)
You’re at the Ermita de San Antonio Abad, a Catholic chapel whose present building dates to 1757. The site has older roots: it occupies the place of an earlier chapel dedicated to Santa Ana, built in 1478, on the “real de Las Palmas,” the camp raised by the captain Juan Rejón during the conquest of the island—an outpost that became the city’s first church. The history of that original chapel has traditionally been tied to Cristóbal Colón’s passage in 1492, linking the island’s earliest urban worship to the great Atlantic voyages. Architecturally, the ermita is rectangular, organized around a transverse axis and topped with two-slope tiled roofing. Its façade is symmetrically composed, ending in a baroque stone espadaña. Inside, a deteriorated space is structured by a central vertical wall and a baroque retablo with three half-point arched openings. …
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