What's on in El Pinar de El Hierro
El Pinar is the youngest and smallest municipality on El Hierro, the most remote of the Canaries, set among the pine forests that give it its name on the green south of the island. It's two quiet hamlets, Las Casas and Taibique, high up and inland, with a road dropping down to the wild swimming spots and dive sites at La Restinga on the coast. Few tourists make it this far; this is deep, slow, end-of-the-world island life among the trees.
Its fiestas are small and local: the patron festival of Nuestra Señora de La Paz and the midsummer bonfires of San Juan. Here's what's on while you're here.
Coming up in El Pinar de El Hierro
Fiestas de Nuestra Señora de La Paz (Patron Festival)
El Pinar's ten-day patron-saint festival honouring Nuestra Señora de La Paz, packed with open-a
Fiestas de San Juan
El Pinar's official local holiday for San Juan on the midsummer night of 24 June, traditionally