Mancha Blanca

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Mancha Blanca is a town in the municipality Tinajo inside the Canary Island of Lanzarote. In the east of the Timanfaya National Park situated place 760 inhabitants (as of 2011).

History

Mancha Blanca is located right on the edge of the lava fields of today's Timanfaya National Park. The place would be at the volcanic eruptions from 1730 to 1736, and so far the last major outbreak in 1824, when the lava was several times almost overrun by lava flows only a few yards from the place froze.

Legend has it that the population got divine assistance with the help of the Holy Statue of Virgin de los Dolores from the Church of San Rogue in neighboring Tinajo. With it, they went in procession against the flowing lava, which then stopped on 16 April 1736 of the Montaña de Guiguan and froze.

Then the inhabitants of the then poor community of Madonna promised to build his own church, which was first completed in the form of a small chapel until 1781. In the later and so far last eruption in 1824, the Virgin de los Dolores saved again Mancha Blanca from the lava - so the interpretation of the faithful. The current Sanctuary, the Nuestra Señora de los Dolores, was finally built in 1862 for the Virgin de los Dolores.

Thanks to the rescue Mancha Blanca statue of the Madonna every year on September 15 is supported place and a big celebration in a solemn procession of Tinajo to the Sanctuary in Mancha Blanca. For this purpose, the offering to the saint finds the Ofrenda a la Virgen, instead.

As part of the celebrations of the arts and crafts fair Feria Insular de Artesania de Mancha Blanca is organized annually since 1989, on the crafts of all Canary Islands is offered.