La Atalaya: Ceramics, Caves and Holiday Apartments

La Atalaya is an old indigenous settlement. Traditional ceramics are made here by hand and without a potter’s wheel. For planning your trip, the area can be considered from both cultural and landscape perspectives.

Culture and Craftsmanship

The Centro Alfarero de la Atalaya de Santa Brígida complex is designated as an archaeological zone. Cueva Alfar de María Guerra is the cave where María Guerra made pottery. Visitors can observe the potters at work and purchase pottery in La Atalaya. For groups, activities, workshops and guided tours at the Centro Locero are only possible by prior appointment. When planning, you can distinguish between the historical aspects, observing the pottery-making process and purchasing pottery. You can consider the cultural topics individually or combine them under a common focus for your own planning.

Landscape

The old town of La Atalaya is located within the Tafira Protected Landscape. La Atalaya lies on the Barranco de Las Goteras. Some caves in La Atalaya are still inhabited. When planning your visit to the area, you can consider the protected landscape, the ravine and the inhabited caves as three separate topics. For a spatial overview, the protected landscape, the ravine and the inhabited caves can be classified separately.

Surroundings

The surroundings of La Atalaya include Castillo de San Francisco, the Museo Canario museum, the Christopher Columbus House museum and the CAAM - Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno museum. For your planning, you can treat these four destinations as separate excursion points. The four destinations can be noted in your plans as independent cultural attractions alongside La Atalaya.

Viewpoints and Beaches

The viewpoints in the surroundings of La Atalaya include Mirador De La Montaña De Arucas and Las Tederas. There are also two beaches in the surroundings of La Atalaya: Playa del Muelle de San Cristóbal and Playa del Malpaso. The selection clearly distinguishes between viewpoints and beaches. You can classify the four destinations according to your preferred focus without mixing the visit to the area with the destinations in the surroundings. The order of these topics is up to your personal travel planning.

Accommodation and Planning

When choosing a holiday apartment in La Atalaya, you can compare travel dates, room layouts and cancellation policies on the listing pages. These three details help you assess the offers based on your own travel plans. You can also keep the review of the accommodation details separate from the selection of daily destinations and match it with your preferred travel days.

Getting There

La Atalaya can be reached via a left turn off the main road; from Monte Lentiscal, the area is about a five-minute drive in the direction of Santa Brígida.

Other places: La Palmita, Monte Lentiscal

To the higher-level travel overview: Santa Brígida.