Santa Lucía de Tirajana is a town and a Spanish municipality in the south-eastern part of the island of

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Geography

The town of Santa Lucía de Tirajana is situated in the mountains, south-west of

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. Its population is (2013),Instituto Canario de Estadística
, population and the area is . The municipality includes the larger towns Cruce de Sardina, El Doctoral and Vecindario, located near the coast. The GC-1 passes through the south-eastern part of the municipality. Santa Lucia de Tirajana 2016 07

Population

Heritage sites

The archaeological site ''La Fortaleza'' is listed as a

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. There are nine water mills dating from the 19th century, built on the Riego de la Zarcilla river. Most of them kept working up to the 1970s. Since then, many fell into disrepair. Ownership may be public or private. On the municipality, the two mills of ''El Valle'' (olive oil for one and ''gofio''''Gofio'' is roasted maize meal often stirred into coffee. for the other) were declared properties of cultural interest in 2003. D. Benjamín González Araña, who owns the olive oil mill, had its restoration completed in 2004. The council of Gran Canaria had the ''gofio'' mill repaired in 2003. José Mercado Soria, Antonio Toledo de León and Juan Manuel Febles Suárez, arquitectos; Jordi Noguera López, diseñador industrial
''Rehabilitación del Molino de Gofio en El Valle y del Sendero de los Molinos en El Riego de la Heredad de La Zarcilla (Santa Lucía de Tirajana)''
("Rehabilitation of the ''gofio'' mill in El Valle and of the Mills path in the ''Riego de la Heredad of La Zarcilla river''"). In ''Boletín de Patrimonio Histórico'', 2004, nr. 2, pp. 32-36.

Gallery

Iglesia Santa Lucía de Tirajana

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Public art

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Notes

References

External links

Santa Lucía de Tirajana website
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