2. CHURCH OF OUR LADY OF EL CARMEN
The stretch situated at the end of La Alhondiga road leads to the stairs that allow us to see a carved sculpture made of stone, which represents the shape of a seagull that pays tribute to the seamen. There we find the Church of Our Lady of El Carmen, a church which was planned in 1955 by Tomás Machado in the place where the concent of the retiring Augustinian nuns of St Andrés and St Mónica had been erected, the last convent founded in the Canarias and the only one that belongs to that order, unfortunately disappeared after a fire which took place in 1952. It has nothing to do with the original frame, since it was completely designed frame, since it was completely designed according to the Lady of El Carmen, which had to be the center of interest of the temple. Not in vain she is the Honorary and Perpetual Lady of Los Realejos and the Saint Patron of the Orotava Valley. From the old work it only incorporated its doorway. It also keeps the image of Saint Augustine, assigned to Rodrìguez de la Olivia, the ones of St Andrew and St Mònica, attributed to Làzaro Gonzàlez de Ocampo (1651 – 1714), the Lord of the Garden, anonymous work of the XVII century, coming from the Franciscan ex-convent, an ivory crucified Lord and the portrait of the founder, Juan de Gordejuela.