The i Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe is one of the best known of Teguise in Lanzarote. This church dates from the XV century, in the beginning it was a simple temple that did not have windows and with a few seats that were stones attached to the walls of the construction.

Since its creation the Church of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Teguise has suffered numerous looting, some fire and at some time almost demolished due to the invasions that They took place in Lanzarote.

Until the 18th century the parish did not have three naves, but again in 1909 it caught fire and was destroyed again, this time through the contributions of the inhabitants of Teguise was rebuilt again.

Several years later in 1914 she was blessed by the Angel Marquina Corrales Bishop and reopened. After this last work, another prism was added to the tower, after this performance it became the highest architectural element of Lanzarote.

Inside you can find very interesting elements made of granite, such as the holy water piles, the baptismal font itself, the pulpit and part of the temple choir, these made by Juan Hernández Pérez, local artist. It is worth noting the altarpieces and the pulley-speaker of the pulpit created by Eugenio Bañasco.

The Castillo de Santa Barbara is one of the symbols of the Teguise population in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. This strength was in principle simply a lookout tower built in the fifteenth century and whose aim was to spot possible attacks by pirate invasions, the person in charge of building it was Sancho de Herrera.

In the sixteenth century a series of improvements were made to the tower, which made it expand and became what is now known as Castillo de Santa Bárbara, served as shelter for the population of Teguise in case it was invaded.

In the 17th century the Castillo lost a bit of importance due to the construction of other fortifications in the port area of Arrecife. A century later, the pirate attacks had disappeared so that it ceased to have the strategic importance it had had until then. At the moment it has been given another type of utilities, since the beginning of the 90 until 2011 it was used as Ethnographic Museum of the Canary Immigrant until it was closed again. Currently Castillo de Santa Bárbara hosts the Piracy Museum, where you can get to know the most famous pirates and learn about the invasions suffered by the island in past centuries. .

In the city of Teguise in Lanzarote there is the Casa Palacio del Marqués de Lanzarote. The importance of this palace is that it was the house of government of the Island of Lanzarote from the fifteenth century, until the invasions of the drunkards left it practically in ruins.

The Palacio del Marqués belonged to the Herrera y Rojas family that lived in Teguise and that turned the villa into one of the political and social centers of the island.

In its beginnings the palace occupied a great extension, it gave to the back of the parochial church of Teguise. It was accessed through three stone doors and where the main entrance was located in the part that overlooked the church, from here you could access a large room and from here to a large patio.

Throughout the years, the palace served as a meeting place for the authorities of the town hall or town hall. Today the palace has been restored and although it is quite different from what it was at the time.

Another of the convents that we can find in the town of Teguise in Lanzarote is the Convent Santo Domingo de Teguise. The only Convent that existed for half a century on the island of Lanzarote was the Order of The Franciscans of Miraflores which today is Museum of Sacred Art With the passing of time, other religious centers were created, including Convent of San Domingo de Teguise, built thanks to the efforts of Gaspar Rodríguez Carrasco, although it was born in Tenerife its commercial activity was carried out in Lanzarote.

In 1692 he sought permission to create a hospital with a church and liturgical service under the congregation of San Juan de Dios, in 1698 he gave some houses to install the hospital, but finally it was not done .

The insistence of Carrasco did not end here and early eighteenth century from a church already built the previous century. The convent presents a facade of double composition, on the door on the right in red ridge, the symbols of the Dominican Order.

In its interior there are two naves separated by four arches of half a point of stone and red and black stonework. One can speak of the golden altarpiece of Indian influence of one of its altars. Today is a Contemporary Art Gallery.

In Teguise it is possible to find one of the most important places in the town, the Convent San Francisco also known by the name Convent Madre de Dios de Miraflores. At the moment of the convent only the church is conserved since due to the invasions and the step of the time it is what has remained in foot.

This was the ninth of the convents of the order of The Franciscans, in it the remains of some of the most illustrious personalities and some of the first nobility of the Island were seen. Lanzarote

The convent initiated by Sancho de Herrara El Viejo, who was lord of Lanzarote and who in 1534 granted the mandate for the construction of the monastery in the garden of Famara.

The convent was located in the south zone of Teguise, and as it happened with many other temples of the island, it was the result of a fire and it was completely demolished. inhabitants of the city and rebuilt it again. The fire burned the convent, the church with its chapels, the images among them the one of Our Lady of the Conception.

Currently the church has three altarpieces, wooden ceilings, an impressive pulpit carved in wood and the pile of volcanic stone in one piece. The building is used for the celebration of cultural events.