Plaza de la Patrona de Canarias

The Plaza de la Patrona de Canarias (in English Square of the Saint Patron of the Canary Islands) is a large square in Candelaria, Tenerife (Canary Islands, Spain).

It is next to the Basilica of Candelaria, a meeting place of pilgrims and festivities celebrating the most important of the municipality.

The castle was virtually destroyed in the storm of November 1826, it was lost in the original image of the Virgin of Candelaria.

Finally, the square is inaugurated on January 31, 1959, by the Bishop of the Diocese of Tenerife, Domingo Pérez Cáceres.

On one side of the square are statues of the nine kings who ruled the nine aboriginal Guanche menceyatos, the pre-Castillian kingdoms of Tenerife.