Caldera de Taburiente, Roque de los Muchachos, Santa Cruz, Fuencaliente and Cumbre Vieja frame the way the island is read.
Among its main reference points are Benahoarite heritage, Atlantic port, Living volcanic island, which connect landscape, memory and everyday life. These places are not presented as a tourist list, but as points from which to read historical, natural and cultural processes.
Each site links landscape, heritage, settlement and memory within a coherent reading of the island.
Key points
Caldera de Taburiente
The great erosion cirque in the north of the island, with its inner ravine, thousand-year-old pines and walls of volcanic rock; reachable on foot from several points in the park.
Roque de los Muchachos
The highest point on La Palma (2,426 m) hosts the observatory of the Instituto de Astrofísica; its night-time viewing conditions are exceptional by world standards.
Santa Cruz de La Palma
The historic capital, with 16th-century colonial architecture, the seafront avenue lined with coloured houses, the Calle Real and the San Sebastián quarter as hubs of urban life.
Los Tilos and the northern laurel forest
The Los Tilos ravine, in San Andrés y Sauces, is one of the most striking gateways into La Palma's laurel forest, with rock walls covered in ferns and mosses.