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San Cristóbal de La Laguna
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How it came to be
In 1494 Castilian troops fought the Guanche people of Tenerife in the Aguere valley. After the conquest, Alonso Fernández de Lugo founded a town beside the valley's lagoon in 1496–97, about 550 metres above sea level.
The town had no walls, and its Lower Town was laid out on a grid. That plan is thought to have served as a model for Spanish colonial cities in the Americas. La Laguna remained the islands' capital until 1723.
Travellers who came here
- 1799-06
On 20 June they climbed up from Santa Cruz before sunrise; he found the town cool after the heat of the port, and noted that of its 9,000 inhabitants nearly 400 were monks.
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