Message #250104

[Starlena]

Santa Bárbara and Icod pyramids
Other Tenerife pyramids

Now even if it was true that the Güímar ones had been built to be part of a modern theme park, or that they were just “piles of stones” left there by farmers before Heyerdahl’s involvement,  there are other equally impressive looking pyramids on the other side of Tenerife that have been very conveniently ignored. The question needs to be asked: who built them and when and why? Was it the Guanches?

In the village of Santa Bárbara just outside Icod de los Vinos, which had been a Guanche stronghold, there is a large five-sided stepped pyramid surrounded by farmland, as well as some others in very poor state of repair.  One of these constructions is right by a house but has lots of its stonework fallen away. The local cake-shop on the road through Santa Bárbara is called the Pasteleria la Pirámide.

On a road known as the Camino de la Suerte, which is again just outside Icod and near to the village of San Marcos but going to El Guincho, there are two more pyramids and one of these is very large and imposing and stands in a banana plantation.