El Viejo Muelle

Around the Old Pier, Puerto de la Cruz developed well into the 19th century. Its economic activity was for many years linked to the trade that entered this small port.

Faced with the need to receive the goods that were later sent to La Orotava, the idea of creating a port where all the trade was processed arose. Curiously, and although Portuenses consider it as "the Old Wharf", the truth is that origina was at the beginning of the 16th century near the mouth of the Barranco de San Felipe, in what is today Playa Jardín.

It was in the mid-seventeenth century when, due to security reasons, the possibility of displacing the port began to be considered, which was done towards the Charco de los Camarones area. Already in the eighteenth century the full maritime commercial activity of Puerto de la Cruz was done through this wharf located near what is now the Plaza del Charco.