Tías - Tías

Plaza de Candelaria - Iglesia de San Antonio
Tías
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Residents
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Tías

Tías is a municipality on the island Lanzarote. The capital of the same name is located inland and has around 5,000 inhabitants.

background

Tías means "aunts" in German. That meant the Tías de Fajardo, the aunts of a noble family who lived here in an estate. After the volcanic eruptions in 1730-1736, people settled in the villages destroyed by the lava, and the small settlement became the village, in short Tías called. They had to learn to make the soil littered with cinder and ash fertile again by moving the stones aside up to the crust of the earth, covering them with lapilli to protect them from drying out and building windbreak walls with the cinder. This very elaborate process can still be seen today in the fields around Tías. Then as now, vegetables, onions and grapes were grown. The farmers also learned the field weeds of the Soda plant to use for soap production, which they use via the port of La Tiñosa exported to England. With the beginning of industrial soap production at the end of the 19th century, this was over, Tías was again one of the poorest villages on the island.

This only changed with tourism. From 1970 to 2011 the total number of inhabitants rose from 3,340 to around 20,000, the small port La Tiñosa grew into the big tourist center Puerto del Carmen, and the other sub-locations like Doer and La Asomada gained in importance.

getting there

The place Tías is about 12 km west of Arrecife inland, it is around 7 km to the airport.Playa Blanca is about 25 km southwest, to the district Puerto del Carmen it is around 5 km.

mobility

Map of Tías

Tourist Attractions

Churches

  • Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Candelaria. Built around 1796.
  • Iglesia de San Antonio de Padua. Built in 1959.

Museums

  • The House of the Nobel Prize for Literature José Saramagowho spent the last years of his life in Tías.

activities

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Web links

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Lanzarote: Municipalities and tourist places
Arrecife • Costa Teguise • Haría • Playa Blanca • Puerto del Carmen • San Bartolome • Teguise • Tías • Tinajo • Yaiza • Timanfaya National Park
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