Iglesia de San Juan Bautista
San Juan Bautista matters here because it is tied to a turning point in La Laguna’s survival: the bubonic plague that arrived in 1582 through textiles brought from Flanders. During those months, the city counted up to 9,000 deaths, and it took until the next year for the register to show no plague deaths on 24 June—San Juan Bautista’s day. In response, authorities raised an ermita to honor the saint on the same site that had served as an improvised cemetery for the victims at Llano de los Molinos. Since then, San Juan has been invoked as protector against the plague and as co-patron of La Laguna, alongside San Cristóbal and San Miguel Arcángel. Architecturally, the church is a single-nave building with a wooden roof and an apse, later expanded with a lateral chapel on the Gospel side. …
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