Cenobio de Valerón

On the island of Gran Canaria in the municipality of Santa María de Guia, you will find Cenobio de Valerón which was an old barn Aboriginal collective character located on a high escarpment of the Montaña del Galleg or within a site dating back 800 years ago. The aborigines took advantage of the geological conditions of the volcanic cone to open, through peaks of stone, 350 cavities that are located on several levels and that served at the time to store cereals and other foods.

The Cenobio de Valerón is located in a strategic point which makes it an authentic natural fortress that goes completely unnoticed from the outside.

It has the name of Cenobio because it obeyed to the false idea by which the silos and cameras of the deposit were the rooms of a luck of convent in which the young people of class were recruited noble until it was time to get married while they were in the care of the priestess of great social and religious influence, today totally ruled out.