Ermita de San Miguel (monument)
San Miguel Arcángel is the key to understanding the Ermita de San Miguel: he is the patron saint of the island of Tenerife and also of the Ayuntamiento of San Cristóbal de La Laguna, and his image appears reflected in the city’s and the municipality’s coats of arms. The hermitage is in the Plaza del Adelantado, and it forms part of a cluster of older buildings that preserve the plaza’s historical atmosphere through architectural harmony. As a protected cultural property, it is a Bien de Interés Cultural, with the category of Monumento. What you register most clearly is the main façade: a large portico framed by a semicircular arch carried on dressed-stone pilasters. Above the arch, a relief of a cross sits over a small pedestal-like plaque that records the 1759 reconstruction. …
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