Open your Heart to the Corazones de Tejina
One of the tastiest and most colourful of fiestas on Tenerife is celebrated on the last Sunday in August in a town above the north coast that very few visitors know even exists.
Towns/Resorts
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Street Gardening ““ The Corpus Christi Flower Carpets
Ever since Leonor del Castillo y Monteverde decided in 1847 that it might be a nice idea to put some petals on the ground outside her house for the evening Corpus Christi procession to walk over […]
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Best of the Fests ““ RomerÃa de San Marcos, Tegueste,
May is almost upon us and we’re heading deep into romerÃa season, so it’s time to polish up those vasos de romerÃa, slip a goatskin rucksack on your back and head into the hills for a dose of local culture, some free nosh and lashings of country wine[…]
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Rural Tenerife, San Miguel De Abona
There’s a conspiracy afoot to confuse and confound visitors to Tenerife…So, for everyone who is currently looking out over a marina when they should be sitting in a shady church plaza, here’s what you’re missing[…]
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Painting the Town Red – Tenerife’s Urban Graffiti Artists
Ever since primitive man first scratched a matchstick picture on a cave wall which said in caveman language “˜Fred loves Wilma’, he has found it difficult to pass a blank wall without leaving his mark on it[…]
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Framed ““ Puerto de la Cruz ““ Tenerife’s First Tourist Resort
Tenerife’s first tourist resort, Puerto de la Cruz, doesn’t attract as much British visitors as the newer southern resorts these days. But the town which was so popular with explorers and Victorian travellers is still a favourite with other European visitors[…]
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Framed ““ The Most Christmassy Towns on Tenerife
Well that’s Christmas over for another year. Your belt buckle needs loosening, your wallet has become a black hole and the only turkey you want to see in the next twelve months is the one where people wear a fez, drink mint tea and beat your bare feet with bats if you try to smuggle hashish […]
Framed – San Cristóbal de La Laguna
Despite being the former capital city of Tenerife, San Cristóbal de La Laguna (its Sunday best name) still rarely makes it on to the radar of many visitors.
And yet it boasts an old quarter which is a UNESCO World Heritage Site (which means loads of interesting nooks and crannies) and a University (which means loads of “˜too cool for school’ bars, clubs and restaurants) […]