Caserío de La Hoya y Aldea Blanca (San Miguel de Abona)

The hamlet of La Hoya is in the borough of San Miguel. It is set in a farming area and combines the typical rural building style with terraced fields of stony soil where crops are grown, generally covered with porous, volcanic cinders to retain moisture. This hamlet is historically important as it was the first settlement in the borough of San Miguel, and also because it is the site of the old tile kiln (for making typical island tiles). The hamlet consists of traditional style houses with a rectangular structure divided in two and separated by a patio, made from cement, stone and mud, covered with half-pipe roofing tiles.

At kilometre seven on the road from the town centre to motorway TF-1, there is a cross roads that will take you to Aldea Blanca, where you can see a Canary Island style farm-house-barn. This is all that remains of the past, when the area was the granary of the south of the island. Next to the barn, there is an oval-shaped milling ground, the only one of its kind in Tenerife.