Directory of Valleseco

  • Dña. Mª Dolores Rodríguez Vega: Weaver

    Dña. Isabel Concepción Hernández: Weaver

    Dña. Mª Carmen Ojeda Suárez : Weaver

    D. Antonio Vega Suárez: Carpenter

  • Situated in the Valleseco Ecological Market, you have the choice of different courses for lunch and dinner.

    Opening hours:Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays Cafe bar and restaurant: 09:00 - 17:00.
  • 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

     

    Fridays and Saturdays 9:00 am - 20:00 pm; Sunday 10:00 am -15:00 pm
  • Esencias de Valleseco: The soul of our land in every scent

  • Opened to the public on 25th January 2013, this new building has been baptized Don Juan Díaz Rodríguez. This neighbour of Valleseco, born in Barranco de la Virgen, was an illustrious person ...

  • TOWN HALL                       928 61 80 22

    TOURISM OFFICE             928 61 80 22 ext 221

    LOCAL POLICE   928 61 89 08/616 98 81 84

    CIVIL GUARD (TEROR)   928 63 00 84

    TAXIS                                  928 61 80 80

    HEALTH CENTRE            928 61 99 80

    QUEMIST'S                        928 61 80 29

     

  • 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).

  • 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.

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

    opening times: Friday 9:00-0:00; Saturday 7:00-0:00; Sunday 7:00-22:00
  • Osorio Peak is a natural viewpoint from which you can see the north of the island...

  • 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

    16 de Mayo
  • 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.

  • The roots of our customs and the folklore of our land is represented by folk music groups:

    • Parranda Los Paperos (C/Cura Caballero, s/n, tlf. 928-631963)
    • Grupo de Baile de Zumacal (tlf. 928-630319/928-630555)
    • Grupo Folklórico Abenechara (tlf. 928-618127/928-618260)
    • Agrupación Folklórica “San Vicente Ferrer” (tlf. 928-61 83 00/61 80 22)
  • 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.

     

    Monday to Friday from 08:00 a.m. - 15:00 p. m. ; Saturdays & Sundays 10:00 a.m. -17:00 p.m. ; Free entrance
  • If you want to eat the best pastries and cakes, come to this bakery situated in the center of Valleseco.

    Mon-Sat 8.00 a 13.30; Tue-Fri 16:00-18:30
  • 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