Ontdek Güímar

The Pyramids of Güímar are six terraced, rectangular structures of lava stone laid without mortar in the Chacona district of Güímar, in eastern Tenerife. Historians date them to the 19th century; the explorer Thor Heyerdahl argued they were step pyramids and helped set up the park in the 1990s. An ethnographic park with exhibitions and botanical gardens now surrounds them.

The Casa de los Balcones is a three-storey town house in La Orotava, built from 1632 for Juan de Castro Bazo and later owned by the Fonseca family. Carved wooden balconies line its façade and its inner patio. It has housed a workshop and shop for Canarian drawn-thread embroidery since the mid-20th century, and its first floor is furnished as a late 19th-century home.