Iglesia Nuestra Senora de la Candelaria

The church of Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria located in the municipality of Tijarafe on the island of La Palma (Canary Islands, Spain), was built between the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. that according to the government With a defined Mudéjar style of a single sober and simple nave, this church has an original bulrush of pure Canarian style, placed in the back of the temple, with the detail of the balcony and staircase of rise by the exterior of the property. At the base of the bulrush there is a stone engraved with the date 1686. The main entrance of the temple has been recently restored, revealing the stonework of the corners of the entire building. On the part of the nascent one the enclave of the bulrush is distinguished and the chapel of the Santísimo excels one of which they form the cruise and that is considered like oldest. In the part of the west three volumes of the building are distinguished: the main nave with the third entrance door, of which the Church consists, the chapel of the baptistery of construction subsequent to the remaining ones that form the transept, being its stonework of red Tosca and the Cristo Chapel, the last of the three that form the transept. The townhouse of the current parochial house, of recent construction, is also distinguished, rising towards the year 1950 on existing rooms from very old date that were used as spoils of the temple, known as "Casita de la Virgen". In the last restoration a wooden balcony of tea was added. Inside the temple, the main nave, simple and simple, but very cozy. In the background the interesting Altarpiece by Antonio de Orbarán, of great value and artistic interest, this being one of the few examples preserved in the archipelago that show an architectural idiosyncrasy of five streets.The originality of this altarpiece lies in the formula followed by Orbarán to place in the intercolumns or cross sections all the sculptural samples of an extraordinary apostolate, with which it practically acquires the appearance of eleven streets. It is, therefore, a mixed sculptural-pictorial solution. On the inner walls of the temple there are ten holes or niches built in 1950 to place various images. The choir is made of wood and its Canarian style. The coffered ceiling of the main chapel is very rich in details, also highlighting that of the central nave. The Chapel of the Most Holy or the Rosary is the most primitive of all the property and contains the richest of all the existing arches in it. It is worth noting the small image of San Antonio de Padua from the 16th century and the images of Our Lady of the Rosary and of San Fernando.