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Top choice in North Coast Tenerife


Housed in a former 17th-century convent, this museum shop sells a superb range of Ibero-American art and crafts, mainly from Central and South America. Ornaments and T-shirts from Mexico, Peruvian knitwear and nativity figures, Argentinian woven rugs, Colombian woven baskets, toys, jewellery and textiles are all displayed in a dazzle of vivid colour in a spacious and well-organised showroom.


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