After the conquest, the land and water distributions of 1625 favored Ant n Dom nguez el Viejo and his son, who built their homes in the Houses of Altavista, on the current town and decided to build the hermitage of San Antonio Abad. Thus they were responsible, without knowing it, of a new population center that, until then, was under the jurisdiction of Vilaflor. Arona is constituted as a municipality 1798 when in that town the first town hall is constituted. The Historic Complex of Arona, has been declared an Asset of Cultural Interest on April 3, 2006. The perimeter of the declared complex comprises the sectors with the greatest heritage value in the urban area of Arona, whose main axes correspond to Duque Street of the Tower and Dom nguez Afonso Street, and whose center represented by the Plaza del Cristo de la Salud with the Church of San Antonio Abad. From the foundation of the original hermitage in the seventeenth century, the house or will develop slowly, taking into account the harsh environmental and living conditions in the south of the island, articulating different constructions, whose manifestations Today they do not go back beyond the 19th century, with some exceptions. Many of them offer an acceptable state of preservation, showing the characteristics of the domestic architecture in rural areas and the typical characteristics of the traditional Canarian house, from its popular side on the one hand, on the other, from the somewhat more complex, more striking, showing the power of the bourgeois to, even with elements ...
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