Candelaria - the contemplative coastal place with its long black sand beach, is the most important place of pilgrimage of the Canary islands with the Basilica de Nuestra Senora de la Candelaria, where the patroness of the Canaries - the Virgen de Candelaria is admired.

In the middle of August the Madonna figure is carried by they believers during a ceremonial procession in memory of the conversion of the Guanchen three times around the Plaza de la Patrona de Canarias in front of the Basilika.

At the bank side of the Plaza de la Patrona de Canarias stand the impressing bronze statues of the Guanchen kings, which governed Teneriffa at the time of Spanish conquest.