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Archaeology museum on the Benahoarita culture in Los Llanos de Aridane.
The Museo de la Casa Roja occupies an early twentieth century manor house in Villa de Mazo, on La Palma, and is laid out over two floors. One holds the Centro Divulgatorio del Corpus, the only state museum devoted to the festival, with reproductions, documents, illustrations and photographs of the arches, carpets and walkways that dress the streets of the municipality. The upper floor houses the embroidery museum.
The Museo de la Seda Las Hilanderas, a silk museum and working workshop on Calle Manuel Taño in El Paso, La Palma, occupies a historic house. It holds a collection of pieces that sums up the Ruta de la Seda, and in the same rooms the craftswomen work in front of visitors using very old methods and tools, just as in the sixteenth century. The workshop describes itself as the only one in the Canaries and the last in Europe to keep the process entirely by hand.
Museo del Puro Palmero stands in the Parque de Los Álamos, in San Pedro, within the municipality of Breña Alta on La Palma. It is devoted to the puro palmero, the cigar-making tradition preserved on the island, and frames the visit as a journey from the distant past to the present, with attention to the tobacco harvest and to the handmade production of the cigar.
The Roque de los Muchachos Visitor Centre stands at 2,426 metres above sea level in the municipality of Garafía, beside the international astrophysics observatories on the highest point of La Palma. It is laid out as four areas: a welcome room with reception, auditorium, shop and an interactive table on the entrails of the telescopes, plus three exhibition rooms devoted to the sky, to the universe and to the Garafía area.
The Castillo de La Virgen crowns the cliff above the Barranco de Las Nieves, on the northern edge of the old town of Santa Cruz de La Palma. It was never a working military fort. It grew out of the town festival, and its battlements are the stage for the Dialogue between the Castle and the Ship during the Bajada de la Virgen. The rest of the time it serves as a quiet balcony over the rooftops, the harbour and the Atlantic.
A Benahoarita site in the final stretch of the Barranco de San Juan, in the Los Galguitos district of San Andrés y Sauces, inside the Las Nieves natural park. Its core is a huge natural cave more than sixty metres wide that was lived in for at least two thousand years. Around it lie dozens of caves, three burial grounds and a small station of rock engravings, together with a visitor centre completed in 2019.
Interpretation centre devoted to the volcanic cavities of La Palma, in the Todoque area within the municipality of Los Llanos de Aridane. It explains how a lava tube forms when molten rock keeps running beneath a crust that has already set, and it lets visitors walk a real section of those galleries. The surrounding landscape was reshaped by the Tajogaite eruption of 2021, which puts the story told inside into immediate context. Visits are made with prior booking.
Benahoarita archaeological site in Villa de Mazo, La Palma, with ten natural caves and rock engravings. The first petroglyphs documented in the Canaries were recorded here in the 18th century.
Marian sanctuary above Santa Cruz de La Palma, home to the island's patron saint and heart of the famous Bajada de la Virgen.
Island museum in a former Franciscan convent, spanning natural history, art and ethnography.
Naval museum housed in a replica of Columbus's ship Santa María, devoted to La Palma's maritime history.
A visitor and environmental information point inside the Los Tilos forest, next to the Barranco del Agua in the municipality of San Andrés y Sauces, in the north east of La Palma. It introduces the Canarian laurisilva, an ancient type of laurel forest that survives here in unusually good condition. The trail towards the Marcos y Cordero springs, known for its rock tunnels, starts from this area.
The archaeological and ethnographic complex of Buracas occupies the lower stretch of the Barranco del Corchete, in the municipality of Garafía on La Palma. Discovered in 1941, it brings together several settlements of natural caves set out on three levels, three groups of petroglyphs with geometric motifs and a number of burial grounds. It is an open-air site, reached on foot by a signposted path from Las Tricias.
The Renaissance-Mudejar mother church of Santa Cruz de La Palma, founded around 1500 on the Plaza de España, at the heart of the old town.
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