Directory of Valleseco

  • Specializing in beef and pork. Cheese and other products of the area like chestnuts, walnuts, apples, sweets, sausages, honey, etc.

  • Valleseco' s Ecological Market, known as EcoValles is the first ecological market in the island. It has 10 stands which provide differents products such as dairy or packet products, all of them certified

     

  • If you want to bye somethig typical from Valleseco, there are delicious local products such as Cider, Cheese, Honey...

  • If you are in Valleseco you must not leave without visiting Artesanía Odil. A shop where you can discover a great variety of handmade products, which will remind you of Valleseco.

     

     

  • The laurel forest is one of the more diverse ecosystems of our island and which hosts a wealth of interesting endemic faunal. Species that require more moisture refuge in shady areas, hidden under leaves, rocks or logs: earthworms, slugs, snails, spiders, myriapods ... Among insects abundant endemic beetles, earwigs, pseudoescorpiones, grasshoppers , bees and butterflies and moths. Among vertebrates are the birds, reptiles and shrews.

    Photos Galleries of birds found in Valleseco 

  • The main ethnographic elements that can be found in the town revolves around the use of water (aquaduct, ponds, sinks, mills, wells or galleries) and farms (houses, yards, caves or Alpendre).

  • Excellent food, cozy and elegant, with amazing views, and easy parking.

  • Dña. Mª Dolores Rodríguez Vega: Weaver

    Dña. Isabel Concepción Hernández: Weaver

    Dña. Mª Carmen Ojeda Suárez : Weaver

    D. Antonio Vega Suárez: Carpenter

  • The valley EL Barranco de la Virgen, with its natural landscape is one of the main valleys, which cross the town Valleseco. Because it is surrounded by high mountains, it is in this area where the sound of silence to can still be heard. You can came to this valley it from the Valleseco town center by the GC-305, which leads you to the first section of Valsendero and then continues across the ravine is the last stretch then it's on to the nearby town of Firgas.

  • Within the village of Valleseco, you will find the Ethnographic Museum, where you can learn more about a typical Canarian product, el gofio, a kind of flour made of toasted corn, widely used all over the islands. The Tourist Information Office of Valleseco is also situated at this point.

     

  • They use local products to make high quality traditional Canarian food. From 2010, They have formed part of a Gastronomic Improvement Programme promoted by Hecansa (Hoteles Escuela de Canarias- Canarian Training Hotels).

  • Fifty days after Easter, in the Witsun Monday, San Vicente Ferrer, the patron saint  of Valleseco, was brought to this municipality from the Church of Teror

  • The first Sunday of October another festival is held in our municipality, the Apple Festival in honour of Our Lady of la Encarnación. Villagers on carts, dressed in traditional costumes, come in pilgrimage to offer their products to the Virgin on the eve of the main day

  • Valleseco township has a significant heritage of traditional rural architecture, linked to farms that are scattered in throughout the territory or in small groups here and there. An excellent example of one of these groups of homes are in Monagas, it's a wonder how their location and their landscape seem to absorbed them.

  • Leaving the most populated part of town, just a few kilometres from the Valleseco downtown, is the site of the Cortijo Calderetas which you can get to by walking a short distance from the off the main road. This beautiful landscape was formed by a large volcanic caldera which gave life to the surrounding chestnut, elm and pine trees.

  • In you route in Valleseco, you can stop to recover with the tapas offered by the canteens in the neighbour associations of Valsendero, Madrelagua and Caserón. Here you have all the details:

     

  • After 15 years working in the quarries of Arucas, he established himself as an independent craftsman, taking full advantage of his gift of drawing that he had cultivated since his childhood.

  • In the center of Valleseco, you can find this bar and take away, where you can eat homemade dishes.

     

  • El Maipey grave is situated in the dirt track that joins Valsendero and the Cortijo de Crespo through el Andén ravine, near Montaña Pajarita...

  • Osorio Peak is a natural viewpoint from which you can see the north of the island...