When mainland Spain was deemed too small, a group of adventurers fought the Guanches in order to add Tenerife to the Castilian Crown. A new island and a new city, and new in all senses of the word. The conquistadors, under the influence of the wave of rational thought that dominated the 1500s in Europe, founded the first renaissance city outside of Europe and, with its clean and lineal lines, invented what would become a general model for the towns of the New World