Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Concepción (monument)
The Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Concepción in Los Realejos traces its roots to a much older devotion: an earlier hermitage dedicated to Santa María is documented from at least 1516. For much of that time, it depended on the Church of Santiago de Taoro. In 1533, the hermitage received parish status, becoming an independent community. What you see today takes shape in its current configuration between 1697 and 1701. The original building had a single nave, which was later expanded to the north and west so that it became the nave of the epistle. Its construction drew on multiple local stone sources: dressed stone from the Icod road quarry, Dehesa stone for the cornices, and more than 200 slabs from Los Cristianos. A sacristy was added later, in 1790, to house the church’s furniture and valuables. …
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