Teguise

Teguise stands inland on Lanzarote in the Canary Islands. The European town was founded in the early fifteenth century near an Indigenous Majo settlement known as the Gran Aldea. It became the island's capital and the seat of its authorities, with churches, houses and institutions serving the surrounding communities.

Its inland position did not prevent attacks from the sea. Raids repeatedly brought destruction during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and the castle of Santa Bárbara on nearby Guanapay provided a place of refuge and observation. Teguise remained the island's administrative centre in the eighteenth century, while the port of Arrecife connected it with maritime routes.