El Draguito: Culture, Beaches and Holiday Apartments

El Draguito can be explored through specific landscape and cultural sites. The Los Derriscaderos Natural Monument covers 268 hectares of volcanic terrain; its light-coloured relief was shaped by erosion. The beaches Playa Leocadio Machado, Playa del Médano and Playa del Confital are located in the surrounding area. Montaña de Guaza is a viewpoint there, while Jungle Park is a zoo.

The landscape destinations therefore differ in type: volcanic terrain is followed by beaches, a viewpoint and a zoo. These details relating geographically to El Draguito open up different themes without reducing the individual places to a shared function.

Culture and History

Cultural destinations include the Museo casa el Capitán, a museum in the surroundings of El Draguito. The Castillo de San Miguel, a castle, is also located nearby. The Iglesia y Antiguo Convento Franciscano, a church, is situated in the immediate surroundings. East of the town centre of Granadilla de Abona stands the Caserío sobre La Fuente, an ethnographic ensemble of heritage conservation interest. It includes traditional agricultural facilities with fruit-drying ovens, a cistern and two threshing floors.

The Iglesia de San Antonio de Padua is a single-nave church with a Latin-cross floor plan and a Mudéjar coffered ceiling. The Casa Rural Antón Piche is a restored 19th-century country house that preserves typical Canarian architecture.

The residents of El Draguito created sorribas on their own jable deposits. In southern Tenerife, such deposits have been used at least since the 19th century for an agro-silvo-pastoral system involving diverse and combined cultivation as well as small-scale livestock farming.

The cultural information thus ranges from a museum and castle to churches, an ethnographic ensemble and a restored country house. Both architectural forms and the traditional agricultural facilities and use of jable deposits provide points of reference for classification.

For a holiday apartment in El Draguito, travel dates, room category and cancellation conditions can be considered as factual selection criteria alongside one another. The three details help organise different offers according to your own requirements without presupposing any additional characteristics of the accommodation.

Further destinations

Further destinations: Maria Jimenez, Santa María Del Mar, Barranco Hondo, Taganana, San Andres, Benijo, Cueva Bermeja, Igueste De San Andrés

Routes and Activities

A mountain bike route from El Draguito to La Sabinita in Arico is 36 km long, has 1,274 metres of elevation gain and takes an estimated three hours. It uses 26 km of traffic-free paths or cycle paths and 9 km of residential streets with slow-moving traffic. The route passes close to volcanoes, reaches the Fuente del Chorro and ends in La Sabinita. Length, elevation difference, duration and path types provide different details for personal planning.

Several details are available for assessing the route: total length, elevation gain and estimated duration describe its extent, while the path types and named points provide a more precise account of its course.

In the wider regional surroundings of El Draguito, the Granadilla–San Miguel section of the Camino Real del Sur can still be walked today.

For the overarching travel overview: Santa Cruz De Tenerife.