La Palma is an island with nearly 84.000 inhabitants, hardly residing in fourteen towns.

SANTA CRUZ DE LA PALMA (18.000 inhabitants).  This is the island capital.  It can be easily considered as an artistic and historic monument.  This city keeps an extraordinary patrimony as an artistic heritage of its glorious past.

  In 1558 here was established  the first "Indias Court".  Santa Cruz Port was the third most important Port within the Spanish Empire, together with Amberes and Sevilla Ports.

  In the Seventeenth Century Santa Cruz de la Palma was erected as the first Spanish democratic town.

BREÑA BAJA (3.800 inhabitants).  This town is located at the outskirts of Santa Cruz de la Palma going to the south.  It takes up the low land of Las Breñas Valley and has very interesting Palms and Dragos trees.

Breña Baja has a beach called Playa de los Cancajos, in front of it is located the most important tourist centre of La Palma Island, with excellent hotels and complexes.

BREÑA ALTA (5.700 inhabitants).  This town is located at the "Las Breñas Valley" high zone.  Here, the famous La Palma Tobacco is still hand made.  The traditional Tobacco Handicraft secrets are carefully kept hidden.  There are also hand made baskets of all kinds.

VILLA DE MAZO (4.300 inhabitants).  This town is located in the south of La Palma.  It is known by its wines and local handicraft interest.  Here is situated a handicraft school known as the “El Molino Handicraft Centre”, where native pottery is faithfully reproduced.

FUENCALIENTE (1.800 inhabitants).  This town is located in the very south of La Palma island.  Here there are many volcanoes, as a result of historical eruptions as: San Antonio, El Búcaro,El Martín or  Teneguía.

  The Teneguía Volcano was the most recent: 1971.  Its eruption has extended the island.  All the volcanoes, which have emerged from the bowels of the earth, give the landscape a new and indelible face.

  It is important to say that the volcanic ground of Fuencaliente and its extraordinary weather are directly responsible for the wine production, which is not really big, but has great quality.  One of the best wines is the well known Fuencaliente Malvasía Wine.

  The Fuencaliente coast is practically covered by a carpet of bananas.  Here we find many beaches and coves, like “El Faro”, the Echenive Beach, Punta Larga, Zamora and so on.

LOS LLANOS DE ARIDANE (20.000 inhabitants).  This is the island's second city of importance. The Aridane Valley centre is one of the more important Canary agricultural zones.

  In spite of being a more modern city than the capital, Los Llanos has very interesting places to visit, like: Plaza Elías Santos, Plaza España, Nuestra Señora de los Remedios Church (our Lady of Remedios Church - Sixteenth Century) or Nuestra Señora de las Angustias Church (our Lady of Las Angustias Church -Sixteenth Century), which image is one of the best island Flemish carvings.

  The Los Llanos de Aridane coast has some beaches like: Puerto de Naos, Charco Verde, Los Guirres.

EL PASO (7.200 inhabitants).  This town is located at 650 metres at the north of the Aridane Valley.  It is well known for the important pottery handicrafts, and is the only place on the Canary Islands, where silkworm rearing together with the subsequent natural silk production are kept.

  The Caldera de Taburiente National Park Visitors Centre is located in El Paso, as well as the “Cumbrecita” and “Lomo de las Chozas” viewpoints, from where you can  admire a large panoramic view of the park.

TAZACORTE (6.800 inhabitants).  This is the newest town of the island.  In fact, in 1925 it still belonged to Los Llanos de Aridane.  The first island conquerors landed in its beaches.  Tazacorte was the place were the first island church was built, dedicated to "San Miguel Arcángel", today the islanders patron saint.

  Even though Agriculture is very important here, especially banana production, there is a deep-rooted seafaring custom, which provides the necessary products to  many Tazacorte Port Terrace-Restaurants.  There is a wide range of fish dishes.

  Daily many tourist boats take visitors to admire the high cliffs of the Tijarafe coast and visit “La Cueva Bonita”.  Also to see the groups of dolphings, swimming freely.

TIJARAFE (2.700 inhabitants).  This agricultural town is located on the west side of the island.  The people work in banana, avocado, flower and almond production.

  Here it is very important to visit the El Time Viewpoint, from where there are spectacular views of the Aridane Valley, as well as to the Caldera de Taburiente, through the Barranco de las Angustias.

  It is also necessary to visit Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria Church (our Lady of Candelaria Church), with its extraordinary baroque altarpiece made by Antonio de Orbarán.

PUNTAGORDA (1.700 inhabitants).  After Tijarafe,  comes a small agricultural town, with thousands of almonds.  There is even a special almond festival, which is celebrated in the almond blossom time: all landscape is pink and white, full of colours and the scents of the blossom.

  In the south of Puntagorda an interesting visit is the "San Mauro Church", from the Sixteenth Century.

GARAFÍA (2.000 inhabitants).  This is the longest town of the island; however it has few inhabitants, because of emigration.  Garafía has agricultural and livestock industry.  It has fertile land, where laurisilva and pine wood forests are well kept even today, as well as many “dragos” trees.  The drago is a very old tree, exclusive from the Macaronesia.

BARLOVENTO (2.500 inhabitants).  This town is located in the north-eastern side of the island, that is the reason why this is the wetest zone, which makes it the best place for Agriculture.  It is important to stress the many “land terraces” that farmers have built against the steep slopes.  This is the way they can obtain useful sowing grounds.

  Barlovento has beautiful places like: La Laguna Recreational Park, La Tosca , Montaña del Colorado and El Molino Viewpoints, as well as La Fajana natural swimming pools and the Punta Cumplida Lighthouse.

SAN ANDRÉS Y SAUCES (5.300 inhabitants)  This is the main north island shopping centre.  Sugar plantations were originally planted here at the time after the island conquest, which brought progress to the zone, even though today only banana production is active.

  The Channel Biosphere Worldwide Reserve is located in this town.  In fact, Los Tilos, Marcos y Cordero and El Cubo de la Galga Forests are part of the biggest Canary Laurisilva Reserve.

  It is also interesting to visit the San Andrés farmhouse with paving streets, old-fashioned houses and church.

PUNTALLANA (2.200 inhabitants) This little town is located near Santa Cruz de la Palma. Years ago, it was  the barn of the island capital.  Here it is possible to visit so many  different places such as San Bartolomé Viewpoint, the Nogales Beach or the Cardonal de Martín Luis.