Alonso Fernández of Lugo, the Adelantado, defeat in July 1496 last Guanche resistance in Los Realejos. With it the conquest ends up in Tenerife, and it is incorporated in the Corona of Castilla. It was in Aguere (in aborigin:la laguna) where came face to face the Castilian ranks's bulk against the aborigines of the north of the island. So that they erect the Cruz de Piedra and San Cristóbal's hermitage in battle's bloodiest place, than for to happen this in San Cristóbal's day gave itself her name to the City. The historic reference of the City of The Lagoon appears officially the day July 9, 1497.
After Guanche rendition, a city was founded on Aguere itself. Placed far from the coast, in order to avoid pirate attacks ,and converted in a footpath for who want to go from a point to another of the island;and for his climate and ground for cultivations and pasture land. In addition to the existence of drinkable water.
The first settlement on the place that actually is the church of Nuestra Señora of the Conception, building for oneself houses and he consecrates a little chapel. The natural water of the lagoon ocasionates problems to the edificies of the zone.
It was create a city in the renaissance mode .The historic helmet of the still city configured definitively to endings of the century XVI, as the italian engineer Leonardo Torriani creates the first plane of the city in 1588.
In 1510 the queen Doña Juana “The Madwoman” conceded to the city the coat of arms which is still in the actual flag of San Cristóbal de La Laguna.
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