History
San Cristobal de La Laguna is a universal value and exceptional design of its plane. This historic, is the archetype of the city-territory. It is the first example of non-fortified town, designed and built along a line inspired by the navigation, the science of the time. Your space is organized according to a new peaceful social order inspired by religious doctrine arising from the millennium year 1500.
The city plan reads like the "star map" that the dots correspond to particular points of the city and the relationships between some of these points and everything. It has a symbolic meaning and is interpreted as a chart or a map of constellations at the time.
All this leads to 2 December 1999, the World Heritage Committee of UNESCO meeting in Marrakesh (Morocco) made public its approval of the title of World Heritage for the city of San Cristobal de La Laguna, Tenerife. The World Heritage Committee justifies this distinction based primarily on the following criteria:
La Laguna is a historic archetype of the "city-territory", the first example of non-fortified colonial city and direct precedent of the new American foundations.
It was drawn from a complex project, based on philosophical principles, realized thanks to the knowledge of navigation, the science of his time.
Its original layout, in 1500, has remained intact since its inception.
Maintain buildings around six hundred Moorish architecture.
The Laguna is a living example of the interchange of influences between European culture and American culture with which it has maintained a constant link.
This international distinction to the values of La Laguna, which recognizes it as an ideal city, city of peace, not only reward the effort made in recent years by different dicienueve government that sponsored the project, but an appreciation to all residents during these five hundred years have loved and cared for this city.
