ERMITA DE SAN DIEGO DEL MONTE (LA LAGUNA)

San Cristóbal de La Laguna
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Founded in 1615 by testamentary mandate of Don Juan de Ayala, held in Garachico on July 19 of that same year. The testament conditioned that on a date not exceeding four years, due to a convent of recoletos by the order of the Franciscans, its non-compliance will imply that the goods would pass to the Dominicans of Candelaria.

The convent began its existence in 1648 and during the first four years the lawsuits between Dominicans and Franciscans follow one another for the enjoyment of the inheritance. In 1664 it was ruled in favor of the Dominicans, passing the goods to their power. But the Franciscans filed an appeal before the high levels of Rome, from where it was definitively dictated in 1677, in their favor.

During those thirteen years of lawsuits the convent works had begun. And from these first moments the chapel of San Bernardo is founded, under the bell tower, later sold to the Salazar family. During the 17th and 18th centuries there are multiple reforms, due to the deterioration of the construction and the bad conditions in which the monks live. Thus, new rooms are built that were not affected by humidity, a high choir, replacing the low one, elevation of the floor level of the hermitage, etc.

After the confiscation in 1821, the City Council tried to turn it into hospice, although the auction process was already started. This initiative does not prosper and the convent and attached properties passed to Don Juan P. Maeade, who acquired it for 59,969 reals of vell n. Since that time it has been private property, being the convent family residence. The hermitage is only opened to the public on the day of the titular saint (November 13).

Two marble orders are preserved in honor of the founder Don Juan de Ayala, and Fray Juan de Jesus, Servant of God, a monk who dedicated his life to the convent. It also has a marble sculpture by the founder, Don Juan de Ayala, dating from the seventeenth century and that along with two others that are in tacoronte are unique in the lake archipelago.

the different paintings that were there have passed to the parish of the Concepcion, while the restoration of the hermitage was being processed. The main altarpiece, the only one that remains of the five that it had, is a composition of different fragments belonging to different few and was repainted white and gold. In it are located the images of the Virgin of Angels, San Diego and San Francisco, and the canvases of Santo Domingo, Crucified Christ and Saint Francis.

Ermita de San Diego del Monte (La Laguna)

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The architectural ensemble consists of four buildings; three townhouses: the hermitage, its annexed dependencies and the old convent, and an exempt building, the so-called Chapel of the Servant of God.

The hermitage is of a single ship. It is about 21 m long and 9 m wide, with an old ceramic tile floor and coffered ceiling tiles with four waters. Outwardly, the temple has a unique ship arrangement on the side of the Gospel to the old convent, as is usual in the island buildings.

The main façade is of very simple composition, with a central symmetry axis, regular cutting stone corners on both sides and finished off in the Gospel wall with a three-spaced stone sword (the sword is two heights ; with two holes at the bottom and one smaller or at the top), with bells at the bottom.

The side facade , on the side of the Ep Stola, is not symbolic. A simple semicircular arch also in gray stone, blinded until the recent intervention, frames a side access door to the hermitage and that perhaps corresponds to one of the doors mentioned in the documentation of the end of the XVII century. There are two windows framed with jambs and semicircular arches in gray canter, wood carpentry and glazed enclosure as bearings. On the south side, the facade is finished off with a regular corner, while on the north side, the transition zone between the hermitage itself and the ...

The hermitage of San Diego del Monte, throughout its history, has presented various uses until it has been abandoned. The main chapel was demolished in 1883 for presenting a dilapidated state and the chapel of San Bernardo was added to the current residence that is the old Convent. In the year of 1947 the cult was recovered as a hermitage and during the last years of the last century it was closed due to the advanced state of deterioration that it presented, being closed to the cult for about twenty-five years. During these nineteenth and twentieth centuries two windows were also opened on the side of the wall of the Ep Stola, the high choir was performed, a new roof and some sections of pavement were changed. There is evidence that the main altarpiece was recomposed with pieces of different altarpieces and was repainted in white and gold, which are the same colors that were used for the railing and steps that delimit the presbytery. It was opened again to the public in 2009, after the restoration works that began on January 14 of 2006 were executed. The intervention proposal deals with the functional recovery of the property, respecting the global volume of the set that form the ship of the hermitage and the attached dependencies. The intervention was planned in three phases due to the pathologies it presented as well as the economic availability. The first phase focused on recovering the structural stability of the volume of the ship, the treatment of the roof and the finishes of the same. The second phase focused on the recovery of the attached units and the third phase ...

The San Diego del Monte party , which is deeply rooted in the city of La Laguna, was initially a local party. Fray Diego de San Nicol s, known as San Diego del Alcal, was a Franciscan missionary of Andalusian origin who intervened in the evangelization of the Canary Islands, first from the island of Lanzarote and later from Fuerteventura, attached to the Franciscan convent of San Buenaventura in the Villa of Betancuria.

Considered one of the islands of the Canary Islands, the history of San Diego in the city of La Laguna begins with the appearance of the convent and the hermitage located in a grove on the outskirts of the city.

The San Diego festival was one of the most celebrated parties in La Laguna, every November 13, established since the Franciscans had the convent in their charge and gave public worship. In it a livery and a small one were celebrated , in addition to religious acts. The early critics of

Popular belief, even among teachers, places San Diego as the patron of students, nothing is further from reality. The festival of San Diego among the students of the city of Aguere has its origin in 1919, according to the chronicles collected in the time. In March of that year, a professor of physics and chemistry arrived at the Instituto de Canarias (now the Cabrera Pinto Institute), from the peninsula, called Don Diego Xim nez de Cisneros y Herv s. Strict in his manners, he put an exam on November 13, holiday and break in San Diego, there was a big uproar in the class, said professor asked the reason and the students told him to have the approval of the address n from the center to take the day off and attend the rome held next to the grove. The teacher's answer to his students was that he also had another custom: put an exam in his onomics and celebrate it with his students. Faced with such intransigence, the students agreed to establish that day

The Hermitage of San Diego del Monte is a place of worship and pilgrimage of the city of San Crist bal de La Laguna, which celebrates the festival of San Diego del Monte on November 13.

Declared of Cultural Interest (BIC) with a category of Monument by resolution of the Hon. Tenerife Island Council, dated March 19, 2003. The opening of the declaration of declaration of Cultural Interest was made on June 30, 1994, effective March 1, 1996, the expiration of the file was declared by the Government of the Canary Islands. After the three-year term established by Law 16/1985, of June 25, on Spanish Historical Heritage, as well as Law 4/1999, its opening was proposed again as a file of declaration of Good of Inter s Cultural with Monument Category.