Candelaria
Candelaria is a city on the east shore of the island Tenerife in the Canary Islands archipelago. It is a city of 28,000 inhabitants, best known for its basilica which includes the sculpture of the Virgin Mary and mural paintings.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Locality with 26,300 residents
- Description: municipality of Tenerife, Spain
- Also known as: “38011” and “Candelaria, Tenerife”
- Neighbors: El Sauzal
Places of Interest
Highlights include Basilica of Candelaria and Plaza de la Patrona de Canarias.
Basilica of Candelaria
Church
Photo: Xauxa, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Basilica of the Royal Marian Shrine of Our Lady of Candelaria is a Roman Catholic minor basilica, the first Marian shrine of the Canary Islands, located in the municipality and city of Candelaria on the island of Tenerife.
Plaza de la Patrona de Canarias
Square
Photo: Mike Peel, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Plaza de la Patrona de Canarias is a large square in Candelaria, Tenerife. It is next to the Basilica of Candelaria, a meeting place of pilgrims and festivities celebrating the most important of the municipality.
Cave of Achbinico
Cave
Cueva de Achbinico, also called cave of San Blas is a Roman Catholic church and cave located in Candelaria, Tenerife, Canary Islands. After the conquest of the Canary Islands it was the first Christian sanctuary of religious significance.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Candelaria and Las Caletillas.
Candelaria
- Category: municipality of Spain
- Location: Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, Iberia, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Candelaria” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كانديلاريا، سانتا كروث دي تينيريفه”
- Arabic: “كانديلاريا”
- Aragonese: “Candelaria (Tenerife)”
- Aragonese: “Candelaria”
- Asturian: “Candelaria”
- Basque: “Candelaria”
- Bosnian: “Candelaria”
- Bulgarian: “Канделариа”
- Bulgarian: “Канделария”
- Catalan: “Candelaria”
- Cebuano: “Candelaria”
- Chechen: “Канделария (Канаран гӀайренаш)”
- Chechen: “Канделария”
- Chinese: “坎德拉里亚”
- Chinese: “坎德拉里亞”
- Croatian: “Candelaria”
- Czech: “Candelaria”
- Danish: “Candelaria”
- Dutch: “Candelaria, Santa Cruz de Tenerife”
- Dutch: “Candelaria”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كانديلاريا”
- Esperanto: “Candelaria (Santa Cruz de Tenerife)”
- Esperanto: “Candelaria”
- Finnish: “Candelaria”
- French: “Candelaria”
- Galician: “Candelaria”
- Georgian: “კანდელარია (კანარის კუნძულები)”
- Georgian: “კანდელარია”
- German: “Candelaria”
- Greek: “Κανδελάρια”
- Hebrew: “קאנדלאריה”
- Hebrew: “קנדלאריה”
- Hebrew: “קנדלריה”
- Hungarian: “Candelaria”
- Interlingua: “Candelaria”
- Irish: “Candelaria”
- Italian: “Candelaria”
- Japanese: “カンデラリア”
- Korean: “칸델라리아”
- Ladin: “Candelaria”
- Latin: “Candelaria”
- Lithuanian: “Kandelarija”
- Lombard: “Candelaria (Canarie)”
- Lombard: “Candelaria”
- Malay: “Candelaria, Tenerife”
- Northern Frisian: “Candelaria (Teneriffa)”
- Northern Frisian: “Candelaria”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Candelaria”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Candelaria”
- Norwegian: “Candelaria”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Candelaria”
- Persian: “کاندلاریا”
- Polish: “Candelaria”
- Portuguese: “Candelaria”
- Romanian: “Candelaria, Santa Cruz de Tenerife”
- Russian: “Канделария”
- Serbian: “Канделарија”
- South Azerbaijani: “کاندلاریا”
- Spanish: “Candelaria”
- Swedish: “Candelaria”
- Tagalog: “Candelaria”
- Tatar: “Канделария (Канар утраулары)”
- Tatar: “Канделария”
- Turkish: “Candelaria, Tenerife”
- Turkish: “Candelaria”
- Ukrainian: “Канделарія”
- Uzbek: “Candelaria”
- Uzbek: “Cанделариа”
- Venetian: “Candelaria (Canàrie)”
- Venetian: “Candelaria”
- Waray (Philippines): “Candelaria, Espanya”
- Waray (Philippines): “Candelaria, Islas Canarias”
- Waray (Philippines): “Candelaria”
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