Ermita de San Telmo
The Ermita de San Telmo is a Catholic hermitage dedicated to San Telmo, placed within Puerto de la Cruz. Since 2000, it has been recognized as a *bien de interés cultural* in the category of monument, linking this modest shrine to Tenerife’s protected heritage. What you see begins with the building’s simple geometry: a rectangular ground plan and an Arabic-style tiled roof with two sloping sides. Whitewashed walls of packed masonry and lime plaster are interrupted only by two matching basalt-stone porticos, each set on plain pilasters and carried by semicircular arches. The main façade faces west, and a two-tier bell gable rises there—first square, with the bell, then smaller and finished with a pinnacle—crowned by a small cross. …
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