Occurrence of Attributes in Original Text
The text related to the cultural heritage 'San Cristóbal de La Laguna' has mentioned 'Town' in the following places:
| Occurrence Sentence | Text Source |
|---|---|
| At first the place where the town was called "Aguere" by the aboriginal Guanches (the name is still used in the literature). | WIKI |
| The town of La Laguna, being the capital of the island during the first times after the Conquest, adopted this emblem as its own. | WIKI |
| La Laguna has often been called the xc2xabFlorence of the Canary Islandsxc2xbb, this is due to its large number of churches and convents, as well as its old town and historic buildings. | WIKI |
| It is the leading holidays in town. | WIKI |
| The property includes two original town centres each belonging to a different time of history: the so-called Upper Town is the initial founding site next to the lagoon, and has an unplanned urban structure; and the Lower Town, one kilometre to the East, which is designed on a grid. | UNESCO |
| San Cristxc3xb3bal de La Laguna is the first example of an unfortified town with a grid model that was the direct precursor of the settlements in the Americas under Spanish rule during colonial times. | UNESCO |
| on un-built ground, and the town was a political means for the colonization and appropriation of the territory. | UNESCO |
| Criterion (iv): San Cristxc3xb3bal de La Laguna was the first non-fortified Spanish colonial town, and its layout provided the model for many colonial towns in the Americas. | UNESCO |
| It is outstanding in its planning as a territory-town, and is the first instance of an unfortified Hispanic town designed and built in a complete project as a space for the organization of a new social order. | UNESCO |
| The property is a living historic town, corresponding to the historical centre of the old town, which is now included inside the modern town. | UNESCO |
| San Cristxc3xb3bal de La Laguna exhibits a very well preserved, extraordinarily homogeneous town structure, in which the religious, institutional, and residential buildings coexist on the original map design in perfect harmony.A great number of architectural instances representative of its traditional town structure stand out, and its furniture heritage shows the kind of relations it has maintained throughout its history. | UNESCO |
| Furthermore, the original layout still exhibits a relationship between the colonial town layout that is typical of the concept of a territory-town and the architecture of Mudxc3xa9jar and other types, of which more than 600 instances are classified and preserved: religious buildings (churches, hermitages, cloisters) and civil buildings. | UNESCO |
| With its history of more than five centuries, San Cristxc3xb3bal de La Laguna is the result of a type of town dynamics that contain a continuous process of superimposition of historical trends. | UNESCO |
| The town has been evolving since its founding more than 500 years ago and has retained conditions of authenticity in its street pattern, its open spaces, and its monuments, which still preserve a visible time continuity. | UNESCO |
| Original facades survive in large numbers, providing an authentic historic streetscape, which demonstrates the diverse origins of the townxe2x80x99s architecture. | UNESCO |
| The Historical Ensemble of San Cristxc3xb3bal de La Laguna benefits from a Special Protection Plan in accordance with the 1999 Canarian Laws on Historical Heritage and the Spanish legal regulations, and requires consensus of all the political parties of the Town Council. | UNESCO |
| The Town Council will continue with the implementation of the Special Protection Plan through its Management Office. | UNESCO |
| Management and conservation actions will be focused on policies to increase and consolidate the number of permanent residents in the property, on extending town quality to surrounding areas through the regeneration of public spaces and restoration of buildings, and on ordinances for civic co-existence in order to reconcile inhabitantsxe2x80x99 needs with commercial and leisure activities. | UNESCO |