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Ermita de San Pedro de Arriba
Religious site

Ermita de San Pedro de Arriba

🏛 bien de interés cultural

San Pedro de Arriba is a small Catholic chapel in Güímar, Tenerife, but it carries a formal cultural protection: it has been a “bien de interés cultural,” with the category of *monument* since 2006. The building itself is deliberately modest—about 45 square metres in area, with masonry walls and a four-slope roof covered in Arabic tile. Its defining feature is the large semicircular-arched stone doorway (*cantería*), reached through a wooden porch supported by slender posts and topped with corrugated metal sheet. Inside, the chapel’s walls hold late-19th-century mural paintings by Madrid artist Ubaldo Bordanova Moreno, depicting the Theological Virtues, the symbols of the Passion, and the coat of arms of the chapel’s patron. …

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