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We discuss the peculiar planning of the city of San Cristobal de La Laguna,in the Canary Island of Tenerife (Spain), when compared to the nearby andessentially contemporary Santa Cruz de Tenerife, which served as a maritimeport of the former city. For this we review our previous study of the exactspatial orientation of twenty-one historic Christian churches currentlyexisting in the old part of La Laguna, which we compare with the analysis ofsix similar buildings located in Santa Cruz, and presented here for the firsttime. In both cities, we take the spatial orientation of historic churches asgood indicators of the original layout of the respective urban lattices.Although we find a clear orientation pattern for La Laguna, which singles outan absolute-value astronomical declination slightly below 20 degrees, pointingto a preferred date close to the July 25th feast-day of San Cristobal de Licia,in the case of Santa Cruz this trend is not followed. On the contrary, thepattern we find for Santa Cruz, within the uncertainties due to the lowstatistics, and apart from one equinoctial and one solstitial orientedchurches, is consistent with an orographic orientation within the canoniclimits of sunrise. This result highlights the uniqueness of the city of LaLaguna, and supports the idea suggesting its deliberate planning in the early16th century.

The development of a utopian city? Comparing land- and skyscapes in Santa Cruz de Tenerife and San Cristobal de la Laguna