The Insular Museum of Fine Arts, Natural Sciences and Ethnography is one of the most interesting places you can visit in the Santa Cruz de la Palma, it is located in the facilities of the house of friars of the old Convent of San Francisco de San Cruz de La Palma. This museum was created in 1915 with the collection donated by Senator Pedro Poggio Álvarez, besides this collection also has other funds that have been acquired by the Cabildo Insular between the that you can find works by the local artist Manuel González Méndez.

The museum also has a part devoted to Ethnography, where you can see different elements related to housing, agriculture, gastronomy or textile production.

Finally, it is worth mentioning the part devoted to the natural sciences, in principle it was integrated by the Museum of Natural History of the Royal Society of Cosmology and has been completed with new mineral zoological units.

Other rooms can be highlighted, such as the Carpentry Room of Ribera, where the visitor can see the history of shipbuilding on the island. Another of the rooms is the so-called Silk Room, in which you can see utensils that serve to work this type of fabrics.

In the Pueblo de Puntagorda is located in the western part of the island of La Palma, the Barranco de Hizcagua acts as a natural border with other neighboring towns such as Garafía. One of the most remarkable monuments that Puntagorda has is the Church of San Mauro Abad. San Mauro was a Benedictine saint and has great devotion on the island since the fifteenth century and in the sixteenth century was when the church was built.

The church is of simple construction of rectangular plant and a single ship that includes chapel, choir and presbytery. The pointed arch that is located in the interior gives it a great architectural value and that in turn divides the nave in antepresbiterio, vestige of Gothic in the archipelago.

The interior of the Old Temple of San Mauro Abad mixes Gothic and Mudejar art, its importance has led it to be declared Good of Interest Culture l in 1986. The works of wood of tea that can be seen in its interior are of an important value, also the piles of holy water that are supported by the columns of the choir. The church was completed in August 2002.

San Andrés y Sauces has the Church of San Andrés Apóstol, this building dates from 1515 and some experts qualify it as one of the The first temples that the Spanish conquistadors built on the island when they arrived there. The church is located in the center of the town, San Andrés, which was one of the most important towns during the 15th and 16th centuries. The importance and value of the Church of San Andrés Apóstol have made the temple declared Asset of Cultural Interest in 1986.

The plant of the Church is of Latin cross, it has an amalgam of artistic and architectural styles because over the years it has been restored. It is worth mentioning the Mudejar roof, the baroque altarpiece where you can see the representation of San Matías, San Andrés and San Pablo and a flamenco image Our Lady of the Rosary.

It also has a flamenco tapestry from the beginning of the 17th century that represents San Andrés Apóstol in a bucolic scene.

The Church keeps a legend that says Maria Liberata de Guisla was buried in the crypt of the chapel dedicated to Our Lady of the Rosary, a few days later the sacristan heard blows and voices of help. Years later the crypt was opened and the woman's skeleton was found outside the grave.