Iglesia San Juan Bautista
Inside this Catholic church, the story begins before the parish ever had walls: San Juan Bautista grew out of an earlier ermita del Farrobo built by the residents of La Orotava in the 17th century. What you see here is tied to the sugar economy, since the current parish was established on former sugar lands associated with the Genoese man Tomás Justinianeo. After long struggle, the community reached major milestones in the mid-1700s. The building was able to be blessed in August 1747, following two decades of works, yet the full move into the new setup was only completed in 1758, when the present tower had not been built. The tower was later ordered by Bishop Delgado, with construction entrusted to Don Mateo González Grillo (1724–1771), who also gave many donations to the parish. …
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