PLAZOLETA DE LA CRUZ DEL LLANO

Villa de Arafo
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Nestled at the end of Avenida Libertad, is the key to the development of the municipality, this historic Plaza de Los Carros or Plazuela del Llano is located, which was the nerve center of the Arafo economy.

In this municipality, with a strong agricultural economy, this place was an enclave for the realization of economic transactions since the 18th century. The cars from the different parts of the island arrived to her, to proceed with the loading and unloading of merchandise, leaving through them to the agricultural production of Arafo, arriving this to the rest of the islander municipalities. Remaining in it still vestiges of the corner reinforcements in some of the buildings for the protection of the beating of the cars in them.

It is located one of the sources of public water supply, which will be carried out after the lighting of the gallery of the gaps in 1929, which together with those that were in the Plazoleta de San Juan Degollado, Conde de Belazcoa n and the corner of San Juan street n water supply to the neighbors during the first half of the twentieth century.


This square is located on the corresponding East-West ascending path with the old aboriginal transhumance road that joins the summit and the coast of the G Mar Valley, and which continues along La Morra del Tanque, El Pinalete and Las Arenas, joins Arafo, with La Orotava, through La Crucita and Aguamansa.

In a slightly triangular way, it was configured as a crossroads between the main road of Arafo, Liberty Street and its continuation in Eduardo Curbelo Fari a, with the confluence of Calle de la Cruz, which led to the original initial settlement of the town of Arafo , and Manuel Herrera Street that led to the lands of the Nu ez family.

The square of substantially triangular floor, and with east-west slope, is finished off visually in the east by Secundino Delgado's house, opening to the west at the confluence with the transverse streets.



Plazoleta de la Cruz del Llano

Arafo MUNICIPALITY
AREA Historic Center



Plazoleta de la Cruz del Llano

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