La Gomera archipelago. The festival of the Virgin of Guadalupe, patron saint of the island, is the Monday following the first Saturday of October. Every five years (most recently in 2013) is celebrated the "Bajada de la Virgen de Guadalupe" (the Bringing the Virgin) from her hermitage in Puntallana to the capital. She is brought by boat to the beach of San Sebastián de La Gomera, where several people host her, and transported throughout the island for two months. La Gomera La Gomera () is one of Spain's Canary Islands, located in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa. With an
Conquest of the Canary Islands coalesced with these expeditions. La Gomera and El Hierro are depicted in the 1367 portolan of the brothers Domenico and Francesco Pizzigano. The Catalan Atlas of 1375 shows the Canaries almost completely and accurately mapped (only La Palma is missing). The eleven islands are named in the Catalan Atlas (from east to west) as "Graciosa" (La Graciosa),"laregranza" (Alegranza), "rocho" (Roque), "Insula de lanzaroto maloxelo" (Lanzarote), "insula de li vegi marin" (Lobos), "forteventura" (Fuerteventura), "Insula de Canaria" (Gran Canaria), "Insula del infernio" (Tenerife), "insula de gomera" (La Gomera), "insula de lo fero" (El Hierro). The name 'tenerefiz' is first given alongside