If you are in the El Calvario-San Luis district, you will have noticed that it has a historical part and another next to an industrial area called Polígono Industrial El Calvario. If you continue along the street, you will reach the supermarkets and there is a tunnel. If you go through it, you will arrive at the Las Manchas urbanisation, a residential area based on the text of Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quijote de La Mancha, and which has its own promenade dedicated to the lands of Castilla la Mancha, where its streets bear the names of such characters known in Spain and in the whole world such as Don Quijote, Sancho Panza, Rocinante or Miguel de Cervantes, among others.
Strolling through this urbanization is an experience for landscape lovers. At the beginning of Calle Sancho Panza we have a small lookout from where we can see the beginning of the area of El Rincón and how the path carries on, leading to the coast of Santana or El Ancón and the Hacienda de Santa Ana just above the beach. And while we look up from El Ancón, we contemplate the strip of coast of Los Patos, Bollullos, Martiánez and continuing along the coast of the Orotava Valley until we see Los Realejos and the Tigaiga Massif, which acts as a wall, that blocks the view to the “Isla Baja”.
If we leave this point and continue to Calle Rocinante we enter the Paseo Miguel de Cervantes. Walking along it allows you to see the cliffs of the Acentejo coast bordering the Orotava Valley. In these cliffs you can see different seabirds and a few caves, which were used by the Guanches as is the case of the Cueva del Guano, now inaccessible, which served to collect shearwater excrement as fertiliser for the farms in the area. At the end of Miguel de Cervantes’ own path we can see the natural pool of “Charco del Negro”, which cannot be accessed nowadays due to how forbidding the terrain is, but which in the past could be reached from El Ancón beach via a path that existed until a storm destroyed it in the middle of the 20th century.
To reach this area, we simply have to set out from the hermitage of Saint Louis or the El Calvario district. Once there, we must continue for about 100 meters along the area of the supermarkets to access Calle Sancho Panza through the tunnel. Then we can get to any of the points by looking at the street signs.
Another option is to travel to the opposite side along the Camino Antiguo Calvario for about 250 meters to reach Avenida Venezuela. If we go down it, we will find the end of Calle Sancho Panza around 200 meters further on, if we go there we will start at the end of Paseo Miguel de Cervantes, in reverse of what is described above.
The TITSA bus line that will take you to the district of El Calvario is number 101 (La Orotava – San Cristóbal de La Laguna) on the stops number 4016 (coming from La Orotava) and 4217 (coming from La Laguna ).
