This summer, we had the opportunity to spend an incredible week in the Iron, the most western island of the Canary Islands. The Iron is an authentic declared paradise reserve of the integral biosphere (title that only shares other two islands in the world), which they inhabit 8000 people.

The origin of the Iron is volcanic, and most of its territory it is formed by recent lava. The coasts very high and are escarped, and any sand beach does not exist, although if there are natural swimming pools like the one of Tamaduste. The life in the Iron is very relaxed throughout the year, although reason why we could see, is animated enough in summer due to the popular celebrations of the towns, that by all means count on their popular verbena and orchestra with native singers (it is not possible to be denied that although very far from the peninsula we followed in Spain)

They exist in the iron multitude of places incredible to visit. We are going to see some of them of summarized form. The end of Orchila: The aim of the world The end of Orchila is the most western zone of the Spanish territory, and up to 1492 it thought that it was the aim of the world. Until 1885, meridian 0 passed by this place, represented by the light of Orchila. The Garoé: The Santo tree It counts the legend that. [… in the days of the conquest had in the island of Hero, (Iron at the present time) a tree to that the natural ones called Garoé, and did not know the students another similar tree in all the archipelago or well-known earth. This era able to distill the water of the mists that arrived at him, by its great leaves, being this collection in hoquedades done in the ground by the natural ones of the Earth. There was no more water in Hero than the one that distilled the Garoé. It was for that reason that the Bimbaches adored this tree as if a God it was, always guarding by their well-being and security…] The tree santo no longer is in the Iron, but in the place where always it was it planted one new one to represent the legend. The place can be visited to see in direct the pools that form there. The millenarian sabinas Sabinar of the Iron is one of the most surprising places due to the form in which these trees have molded themselves. The sabinas that are in the place, present/display twisted forms because the violence of winds and the climatic conditions have been molded during centuries by. A place to visit without a doubt.

If you want to travel to the Iron, you can find more information in its official page of tourism.

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