Caleta de Sebo, sand tracks, seafaring culture and a protected landscape make up an everyday and environmental heritage.
La Graciosa stands out for its untouched beaches, gentle volcanic cones and mobility still far removed from intensive urbanisation. More than monumental, its heritage is landscape-based and everyday: sand, lime, boats, unpaved streets and a rhythm of life very different from the larger islands.
Among its main reference points are Domestic scale, Protected landscape, Recent recognition, which connect landscape, memory and everyday life. Heritage combines material remains, cultural landscapes and living practices, so it must be read together with history, territory and social life.
Key points
Caleta de Sebo: the architecture of fishing
The whitewashed houses of Caleta de Sebo, the boats and the quay form an ensemble of vernacular seafaring architecture that has kept its traditional character.
Pedro Barba: a coastal residential settlement
The second settlement on La Graciosa is Pedro Barba, quieter than Caleta de Sebo; its holiday houses and small beach shape a very particular scale of life.
Sand tracks as heritage
The network of sand tracks linking Caleta de Sebo with the beaches and other points on the island is itself a heritage in daily use; preserving it is inseparable from the island's identity.
Cultural landscape of artisanal fishing
The fishing gear, the net-drying racks and the boats beached at Caleta de Sebo make up a living ethnological heritage that reflects centuries of a seafaring economy.