ERMITA DE SAN CRISTÓBAL

Hermitage built by the Regidor Ant n Joven ( Regidor and Lieutenant Gpbernador de Tenerife ) at the beginning of the 16th century. It is believed that the remains of Fernando Guanarteme, last "Guanarteme" of Galdar, are buried there. It has undergone significant transformations with respect to the plant erected by Torriani.

In the data provided by Jesús P rez Morera and M.Rodriguez Mesa in their publication on La Laguna and San Crist bal it is known that the Catalonian Ant n Joven left a chaplaincy established in his Hermitage of San Crist bal, whose foundation It has been located at the beginning of the 16th century. Built on some land that he had at the exit of the city, close to the old road of Santa Cruz, it is assured that the plot of his location corresponds to a part of the field where the aborigines and conquerors fought the famous battle of Aguere in 1495. Subsequently, once the Villa de San Crist Bal de La Laguna is founded, next to the disappeared Cabildo Lagoon, begin to celebrate the feast of San Crist Bal.

In 1530, the hermitage was in a dilapidated state, due mainly to the many lawsuits it had gone through, but the council continued to be interested in maintaining it and intervened to pay for its repair. At the end of the 16th century this situation improves and already in the first years of the six hundred the existence of a bell, a choir and a pulpit is known. During the entire century remodeling works are happening throughout the hermitage, which include racks, whitewashed walls, construction of the sacristy, a new bell tower and tiling of the street, but all these works do not prevent that in 1677 prop up the building to prevent its collapse, starting the rebuilding works that lasted beyond 1688.

Data on the historical evolution of the hermitage during the following centuries are scarce, although it is known about the replacement of the holy water basin in 1707. The current factory was rebuilt in the 18th century, circumstances unknown. of said rebuilding.