Ermita de San Antonio de Padua

The hermitage of San Antonio de Padua is located in the town belonging to Pájara of Toto, in the center of the town. The temple is a place of obligatory visit in which to know much better the history of this small municipality of Fuerteventura. The Hermitage is attached to the square, was built at the end of the eighteenth century, when it began to emerge a large number of hermitages distributed by the most important points of the island.

History says that the Hermitage of San Antonio de Padua was paid for by the villagers themselves, although a large part was paid by Ana Cabrera Betancuria.

The location of the chapels at the time used to correspond to high places or far from the population center, in this case the opposite happened, it was located in the center of the town, close to the square in a place of easy access for all debotos.

The hermitage is built in a single nave, with a wooden roof, and also houses several valuable goods that come from donations that the people themselves donated to the temple and that still today are still part of the buildings. equipment.