Morning walk around Puerto del Carmen | Old Town & Harbour | Lanzarote | 10 April 2021

Peaceful morning stroll around the Old Town & Harbour..

Puerto del Carmen Harbour:

The area of Puerto del Carmen was inhabited before the arrival of the Normans on the island and at least since the 16th century, known as Tiñosa, so it appears on the maps of Torriani, Brihuela/Cosala (as La Tiñosa), P.A. del Castillo (as La Tiñoça) and Riviere (as La Tinosa). This toponym is probably of Guanche origin, adapted to the phonetics of Spanish and related to other lexical variants such as Tiñor in El Hierro or Tiñoa in Tenerife.

After The Conquest it becomes a place of anchorage. In 1591 Leonardo Torriani, refers to the natural port of La Tiñosa. Later on, it became important with the barrel trade.

In 1900 it was declared a Port of General Interest, a distinction it lost in 1928 in favour of Arrecife. In 1904, La Tiñosa became a town with 194 inhabitants, mainly dedicated to fishing. In 1957, the small fishing village was renamed Puerto del Carmen, in honour of Nuestra Señora del Carmen.
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