Square
Plaza Patrona de Canarias
Plaza de la Patrona de Canarias—often translated as the Square of the Saint Patron of the Canary Islands—became Candelaria’s main public stage for devotion long after the shoreline changed. Before the square existed, this spot held an ancient beach where stood the convent and the old church of the Virgin of Candelaria, and in the center of the beach stood the Castillo de San Pedro, built in 1697 to defend that religious complex from pirate raids. That coastal fortification was virtually destroyed in the November 1826 storm, and the turmoil was bound up with a crisis involving the original image of the Virgin of Candelaria. …
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