Example sentences for: guanches

How can you use “guanches” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Legend has it that well before Christianity came to the Canaries an image of the Virgin was washed ashore here and worshipped by the Guanches, who were quite oblivious to its Christian significance.

  • The magnificent panorama includes two rock formations that were once worshipped by the Guanches.

  • The Guanches are thought to have arrived in the islands around the 1st or 2nd century b.c., probably from North Africa.

  • Some say it came from Egypt, others that the Guanches may have devised it.

  • Nearby the Museo Canario holds the islands’ most important collection from Guanche times, with the highlight being the room of skulls and mummies, depicting the Guanches’ fascination with death (see page 14).


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