Iglesia de San Benito Abad (monument)
San Benito Abad—St Benedict, patron of Tenerife’s farmers and agricultural workers—has his annual focus here, because this church is the starting point each year for the Romería de San Benito Abad. The Iglesia de San Benito Abad began as a construction project in the mid-16th century, and its building plan leans toward a rectangular layout with generous dimensions. The frontage is deliberately restrained: a main doorway sits inside a red-stone semicircular arch, its voussoirs marked by three thin mouldings that rest on a smooth lintel. From there rise clustered columns with conical capitals composed in three sections, with the middle one set off by geometric motifs. Above the arch is the choir window, and the façade is finished with a simple rectangular stone belfry (espadaña) with semicircular openings and stone finials shaped like balls. …
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