What to see in San Cristóbal de La Laguna
A World Heritage old town
Here are the 37 places in San Cristóbal de La Laguna that we have on record, with how long each one takes, the bus that stops nearby and what to know before you go; and below, 12 places to eat. If you would rather have it all put together into one day, with lunch and the way back, that is what Naira does.
Let Naira plan your dayFor a swim
Piscinas naturales de Bajamar
rock pool · an hour and a half · good with kids
Two seawater pools at the end of the promenade, sheltered from the waves by a wall.
Facilities: blue flag, lifeguards, showers, toilets, toddler and baby pool, shaded area · step-free access
Warning (in Spanish): El mar de fuera es bravo y rompe con fuerza contra el muro: dentro de las piscinas se está bien, fuera de ellas no. Con marejada, el Ayuntamiento las cierra.
Bus: stop EL SOL, 290 m away · lines 50, 105, 224
Piscinas Naturales de Jover
rock pool · about 2 hours · good with kids
You drive down from Tejina through banana plantations to a car park, and the pool is right beside it. Concrete bottom, a metre and a half deep, and opposite the Punta del Hidalgo lighthouse and the Anaga massif. A locals' spot, few tourists.
Facilities: blue flag, showers
Warning (in Spanish): Está abierta al mar: con oleaje fuerte no es sitio. Mire el parte antes de bajar.
Bus: stop JOVER, 60 m away
Piscina Natural de Punta del Hidalgo
rock pool · about 2 hours · good with kids
At the far end of Punta del Hidalgo, where the road ends: several pools among the rocks with the Atlantic breaking beside them. Blue flag, showers and step-free access.
Facilities: blue flag, showers · step-free access
Bus: stop OCEANO ARTICO, 220 m away · lines 50, 105, 224
Playa del Cercado
beach · about 2 hours
Pebbles / dark sand, 165 metres.
Facilities: play area · step-free access
Warning: Classified as DANGEROUS in the official register of bathing areas. No assisted bathing.
Bus: stop ALTAGAY, 190 m away · lines 50, 105, 224
Nature, trails and viewpoints
Chinamada
hamlet · an hour and a half
Most of its houses are dug by hand straight into the mountain, which keeps the inside at a steady 20 degrees all year round.
Bus: stop LAS CARBONERAS, 1.6 km away · lines 76, 77, 275, 360
Caserío de la Cumbilla
hamlet · an hour and a half
A small inhabited hamlet with no services, settled since the 16th century by colonists and free Guanches after the conquest.
Bus: stop LA CUMBRILLA, 100 m away · line 947
Caserío Las Casillas
hamlet · an hour and a half
An abandoned farming hamlet that keeps examples of traditional Canarian rural architecture.
Bus: stop LAS BODEGAS, 1.2 km away · line 947
Volcán de las Rozas
volcano · about 2 hours
The Las Rozas volcano is a volcanic formation that played a key role in creating the volcanic platform of Punta del Hidalgo.
Bus: stop EL TANQUE, 1.4 km away · lines 50, 105, 224, 325
Mirador Cruz del Carmen
viewpoint · about 25 min · best at sunset · good with kids
At 920 m, almost always among the clouds. Next to it is the Centro de Interpretación de Anaga (922 63 35 76, 9:30-15:00), where they hand out maps and advice on trails.
Bus: stop CRUZ DEL CARMEN, 140 m away · lines 76, 77, 273, 274
Mirador de Jardina
viewpoint · about 25 min · best at sunset · good with kids
Several reviews prefer it to Cruz del Carmen. You can see as far as the Teide.
Bus: stop MIRADOR DE JARDINA, 20 m away · lines 76, 77, 273, 274
Mirador de Aguaide
viewpoint · about 25 min · best at sunset
A cliff about 500 m above the sea, with Punta del Hidalgo and the Roques de Anaga; you reach it in 10-15 minutes on foot from the square in Chinamada.
Warning (in Spanish): Apenas hay protección en el borde, la caída al mar es de unos 500 m y suele hacer viento fuerte.
Bus: stop EL BATÁN, 1.9 km away · line 274
Mirador de San Roque
viewpoint · about 25 min · best at sunset
The La Laguna plain and the old town; a panel with a QR code opens an augmented-reality app that points out what you are looking at, with audio in several languages.
Bus: stop EL JUEGO, 100 m away · lines 203, 206
Mirador de San Mateo (Roque de los Dos Hermanos)
viewpoint · about 25 min · best at sunset
A view of the Roque de los Dos Hermanos in Punta del Hidalgo; the tourist information office is next door.
Bus: stop EL CASTILLO, 480 m away · lines 50, 105, 224, 352
Barranco del Tomadero
ravine · about 2 hours
The Barranco del Tomadero is a deep canyon that begins at the Risco de los dos Hermanos.
Bus: stop PUNTA DEL HIDALGO, 1.5 km away · lines 50, 105, 224
Cabezo de Tenejías
landscape · an hour
The Cabezo de Tenejía is an impressive rock near Las Carboneras that stands as a prominent landmark in the area.
Bus: stop LAS CARBONERAS, 790 m away · lines 76, 77, 275, 360
The old town and its history
Museo de la Ciencia y el Cosmos
museum · an hour and a half · good with kids
A museum where you touch and try things out, with a planetarium. One of the best places to go with kids.
Bus: stop MENCEY BENCOMO, 120 m away · lines 14, 201, 206, 228
Photo: ArticCynda · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Casco histórico de La Laguna
old town · about 2 hours
Its street grid was laid out with a cord in the 15th century using navigation charts, and it served as the model for building Havana and Lima.
Bus: stop EL JUEGO, 70 m away · lines 203, 206
Mercado de La Laguna
market · an hour
In the Plaza del Cristo. Island produce and food stalls.
Bus: stop LEOCADIO MACHADO, 230 m away · lines 11, 12, 14, 50
Photo: Wouter Hagens · CC BY-SA 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Ex-convento de San Agustín
old town · an hour and a half
A fire in 1964 destroyed the roof of this old secondary school, leaving the cloister open to the sky and the stone columns as the building's only skeleton.
Bus: stop DEÁN PALAHI, 60 m away · lines 76, 204, 271, 274
Convento de Santa Catalina de Siena
old town · an hour and a half
Its enclosed-order church holds the incorrupt body of Sor María de Jesús, whose coffin has been opened to the faithful only once a year, every 15 February, since the 18th century.
Bus: stop DEÁN PALAHI, 130 m away · lines 76, 204, 271, 274
Photo: Maesi64 · CC0 · Wikimedia Commons
Casa Museo Cayetano Gómez Felipe
museum · an hour and a half
The house of a La Laguna collector, with everything he gathered in his lifetime just as he left it.
Bus: stop LUCAS VEGA, 60 m away · line 206
Photo: CARLOS TEIXIDOR CADENAS · CC BY 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Museo LM Arte Colección
museum · an hour and a half
A private collection of Canarian art open to the public in the old town of La Laguna.
Bus: stop DEÁN PALAHI, 160 m away · lines 76, 204, 271, 274
Fundación Cristino de Vera
museum · an hour and a half
Devoted to the Tenerife-born painter, with a permanent display of his work in a house in the old town of La Laguna.
Bus: stop DEÁN PALAHI, 120 m away · lines 76, 204, 271, 274
Photo: StellarD · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Museo de Antropología de Tenerife
museum · an hour and a half · good with kids
Devoted to the island's traditional culture: crafts, the home, fiestas and work in the fields.
Bus: stop LA CARTA, 140 m away · lines 51, 57, 224
Photo: Photograph by Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net). · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Museo de Arte Sacro Santa Clara
museum · an hour and a half
In the old convent of the Poor Clares, with religious pieces and the choir where the enclosed nuns lived.
Bus: stop TABARES DE CALA, 100 m away · lines 76, 204, 271, 274
Museo de Historia y Antropología (Casa Lercaro)
museum · an hour and a half · good with kids
It occupies a 16th-century manor house and tells how Canarian society took shape after the conquest.
Bus: stop DEÁN PALAHI, 120 m away · lines 76, 204, 271, 274
Ermita de San Diego del Monte
church · about 30 min · good with kids
Every November the city's university students come here to count the buttons on the founder's statue, because tradition says that way they will pass their exams.
Bus: stop MARCOS REDONDO, 390 m away · lines 50, 51, 57, 76
Iglesia de San Bartolomé de Tejina
church · about 25 min · good with kids
Declared a Bien de Interés Cultural.
Bus: stop TEJINA, 40 m away · lines 50, 105, 224
Iglesia Parroquial de San Benito Abad
church · about 25 min · good with kids
Declared a Bien de Interés Cultural.
Bus: stop SAN BENITO, 50 m away · lines 11, 12, 50, 51
Iglesia Parroquial de San Lázaro
church · about 25 min · good with kids
Declared a Bien de Interés Cultural.
Bus: stop CAMINO SAN LÁZARO, 50 m away · line 203
Ermita de Santiago Apóstol
church · about 30 min
The chapel of Lomo de Las Bodegas, dedicated to Saint James the Apostle, belongs to the parish of Las Nieves de Taganana and was built in the 1930s.
Bus: stop LAS BODEGAS, 120 m away · line 947
Ermita Virgen de la Caridad y el Cobre
church · about 30 min
The image of the Virgen de la Caridad del Cobre venerated in Azanos was brought in 1984 by a neighbour who had dreamt that «the image of the Virgin appeared with a boat at her feet».
Bus: stop BAJO AZANO, 70 m away · line 946
Iglesia de San Mateo
church · about 30 min
A chapel built in 1677 in honour of Saint Matthew the Apostle and enlarged in 1876.
Bus: stop SAN MATEO, 20 m away · lines 50, 105, 224
"El Puntero" en memoria de SebastiánRamos
sculpture · about 15 min
A tribute to Sebastián Ramos «El Puntero» (1894-1976), one of the most important artists Canarian folk music has ever produced.
Bus: stop PUNTA DEL HIDALGO, 40 m away
Santuario del Cristo de La Laguna
church · about 30 min
The black Christ it keeps inside is carved from Flemish wood and arrived on the island in 1520, wrapped in a legend of pirates.
Bus: stop TABARES DE CALA, 180 m away · lines 76, 204, 271, 274
Iglesia de la Concepción (La Laguna)
church · about 30 min
Its dark stone bell tower also served as a lookout to warn the neighbours when corsair ships appeared along the north coast.
Bus: stop DEÁN PALAHI, 200 m away · lines 76, 204, 271, 274
Ermita de la Cruz del Carmen
church · about 30 min
It was built at the end of the 19th century so that the woodcutters of the forest could go to Mass without losing a whole day walking to the city of La Laguna.
Bus: stop CRUZ DEL CARMEN, 180 m away · lines 76, 77, 273, 274
Where to eat
La Abadía Gastrobar & Lounge
creative canarian · Mon-Thu 13:00-18:00 and 20:00-23:30 · Fri 12:30-24:00 · Sat 10:00-24:00 · Sun 10:00-18:00 · open every day
Restaurante Rincón del Pescador
fish · 12:30-16:00 · Tue, Thu and Sun also evening · Saturday closed
Tasca Los Corazones
canarian · 13:00-17:00 · Mon, Fri and Sat also evening · Wednesday closed
Guachinche Casa Aguere
canarian cooking · 13:00-23:00 · Mon and Sun until 18:00 · open every day
And for an ice cream: La Heladería.
And for an ice cream: Heladeria Nene.
And for an ice cream: Heladería Natalia Melendez Felipe.
And for an ice cream: Heladería Chicas Italneve.
Getting there by bus
From Puerto de la Cruz
line 104, direct · about 35 min · last bus back: 01:05 (the last direct one)
From La Orotava
line 104, direct · about 25 min · last bus back: 01:05 (the last direct one)
From Icod de los Vinos
line 108, direct · an hour and a half · last bus back: 00:16
From Santa Cruz de Tenerife
line 14, direct · about 15 min · last bus back: 01:28
From Adeje
line 611, direct · about 3 hours · last bus back: 21:10 (the last direct one)
From Arona
line 611, direct · about 2½ hours · last bus back: 21:10 (the last direct one)
Weekday timetable, taken from the official TITSA timetable. Where you have to change buses we do not give the last one: a night-time journey back with changes is not one you can plan.
Fiestas
- Pregón oficial de las Fiestas de San Benito Abad — 3 July 2027, 20:30
- Gran Baile de Magos de San Benito Abad — 10 July 2027, 21:30
- Pregón, teatro costumbrista y salida del Patrón con 24 truenas — 31 July 2027, 20:00
- Peregrinación de San Bartolomé hacia El Pico y el cementerio — 4 August 2027, 18:00
The full fiesta calendar of San Cristóbal de La Laguna
Let Naira plan your dayTell her what you fancy, where you are starting from and whether you have a car, and she builds the day with lunch and the way back.