Carnival on Tenerife, Puerto de la Cruz
Not as big as Santa Cruz, but carnival in El Puerto still involves tens of thousands of people and rocking street parties.
Fiestas & Festivals
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Carnival on Tenerife, GüÃmar
Surely the best carnival poster on Tenerife and enough to warrant a visit the town of the mysterious pyramids for their celebrations.
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Carnival Dates in Santa Cruz 2011
The biggest, brashest and most bouncing celebrations are held in Tenerife’s capital city, Santa Cruz.
Carnaval Costumes on Tenerife
What is it about the British psyche that makes us so reluctant to do anything that could be construed as making us look or sound silly? We don’t easily slip into alter egos, unlike many of our European cousins who don a wig and high heels at the slightest hint of an excuse.
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San Antonio Unites The Arona Party Animals
Ignoring several china shops the oxen rampaged through Arona town, well maybe rampaged is putting it strongly, they looked pretty docile despite being tethered in pairs and led up the street […]
Watch Los Tres Reyes (The Three Kings) Parade, La Orotava 2011
Tenerife Magazine was in the beautiful old quarter of La Orotava to film the arrival of the Tres Reyes (Three Kings).
In La Orotava, as in many places on Tenerife, the Three Kings arrive on camels and this year Balthazar got a bit of a scare […]
In La Orotava, as in many places on Tenerife, the Three Kings arrive on camels and this year Balthazar got a bit of a scare […]
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Chestnuts and the Fiesta of San Andrés on Tenerife
November is the month of the castaña (chestnut) on Tenerife and whereas in Britain chestnut season means epic conker battles and bruised knuckles, on Tenerife activities have more than a hint of a Charles Dickens’ Christmas about them[…]
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Presents Galore at the Pinolere Craft Fair
Pinolere is one of the biggest and most enchanting craft fairs on Tenerife and is located on the slopes of a hill so steep that just getting from the car to the pavement requires steely thighs and a supply of oxygen.
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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.
Fireballs Rain Down on Garachico
At somewhere between 10 and 11pm SantÃsimo Cristo de la Misericordia was paraded through the streets, the town was plunged into darkness and the beach set alight. Spectacular enough in itself, but the real show was only just beginning[…]
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