LA ATALAYA VILLAGE

This once entirely trogloditic village 5km west of Santa Brigida now has its fair share of freestanding buildings. But it continues to produce the kind of hand-made pottery first made by the aboriginal Canarios, without the use of the wheel and unglazed. They are sold by individual craftspeople from their cave workshops at the edge of the village. La Atalaya and the villages of Hoya de Pineda and Lugarejo are the main centres of pottery handicraft.