Iglesia de San Francisco
Iglesia de San Francisco de Asís is a Baroque Catholic landmark in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, and it began life as a Franciscan convent. The present church was completed in 1680, and it is now the second most important church in the city, after the Church of the Concepción. Inside, its three naves mark it out as one of the best Baroque examples in the Canary Islands—a church designed to hold large gatherings, prayers, and public devotion. Its most famous presence is not architecture but a small sacred image: the Señor de las Tribulaciones. In 1893, during a cholera epidemic, a procession through the streets with this image was carried out, and the epidemic stopped, which led people to invoke the figure as the protector of the city and to call on the title Señor de Santa Cruz. That link between art, ritual, and public crisis is why this church remains central to the city’s story—well beyond its walls.
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