Pictures from Ermita Virgen de los Reyes and
Faro de Orchilla

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  Santuario de Nuestra Señora de los Reyes

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The chapel has an image of the island's patroness saint. Local shepherds got her from foreign sailors in the 14th century. Every four years (next 2009) the virgen is taken out of the chapel in a procession around the island.
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Monumento al Meridíano Cero (1634) until it was taken over by Greenwich in 1884. The island is still called Isla del Meridiano by the locals.
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Faro de Orchilla
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Euphorbia broussonetii Link in an arid habitat...
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