14 Hospital de la Santísima Trinidad e Iglesia de San Francisco

ConThe convent and the adjacent church were rebuilt on the ruins of the Convent of San Lorenzo, burnt down in 1801 and governed by a large community of Franciscan friars. The current building bears witness to the splendour of what had been known as the Escorial of the Canary Islands, created under the patronage of the Benítez de Lugo family in 1519 on a chapel erected to San Lorenzo years earlier. Their example was then followed by other aristocratic families, turning the property into home or chapterhouse.

As it is located between the two parishes of the town, the convent was a centre for education, economic development and local religion. That pious past survives in some sculptures and paintings in the small church that was created by the neighbouring community in the nineteenth century, when the monastery occupied by the friars until it was confiscated by the state in 1835 was also the site of the former Hospital de la Santísima Trinidad.