23/09/2026
JÓVER | Where the lava stopped and the north coast opened up 🌊
This pool was not built. It was poured. Molten lava ran down from the mountains, hit the Atlantic and froze into a black rock wall, and the ocean has been filling the basin behind it ever since. Anaga's peaks rise straight out of the sea behind you.
🏘️ The village above it has its own story. Tejina was an independent municipality until 1850, when it was absorbed into La Laguna along with Valle de Guerra and Punta del Hidalgo. It stayed what it always was: a farming village, and it still lives off the land today.
❤️ Every 24 August the village builds the Corazones de Tejina. Three huge heart-shaped frames, one for each neighbourhood, covered in fruit and bread and raised in the square in honour of San Bartolomé. The tradition goes back to the second half of the 19th century and was declared an asset of cultural interest in 2003. There is nothing else like it in the Canaries. If you are on the island in late August, go.
🚿 The pool itself is wilder than it looks, but not rough. Smooth bottom, steps into the water, a solarium, toilets, showers and a ramp for reduced mobility. The freshwater shower comes off the mountain through channels cut into the rock over the years.
🦀 Walk out onto the black rock around the edge. It is alive with crabs, and the view back along the coast is the photo everyone ends up taking.
🌊 Check the sea first. On days with heavy swell the waves break straight over the wall and the pool closes. In summer there are usually lifeguards on duty.
🅿️ Parking right by the pool, a small restaurant beside it, and a bus stop if you are not driving. Reef shoes are still a good idea.
🚗 A good hour and a quarter from Costa Adeje. When guests ask us what is worth a full day trip north, this is the answer. The drive back through Anaga is worth the journey on its own.
Some places are worth crossing the island for.
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📍 Piscina Natural de Jóver, Camino Playa de Jover 8, Tejina, San Cristóbal de La Laguna
🗺️ GPS: 28.5472, -16.3705
