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Santa Cruz Carnival Gets off to a Glittering Start

Posted on February 18, 2012June 27, 2017
byAndy Montgomery

Bucking the trend of carnival weather and defying the threatened rain which was forecast to hit the city last night, Santa Cruz staged a glamorous and glittering opening to its 2012 Carnaval in a dry and balmy 18ºC.

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The Corpus Christi Red Carpet on Tenerife

It’s June 1936. Francisco Franco is Governor General of the Canary Islands and is in La Orotava watching the Corpus Christi procession as it passes over the floral works of art. Well known as a dissenter, Franco has been posted to the furthest and quietest outreach of Spanish governance…

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The Carnival is Over, Tenerife’s Crazy Week of Fun in Pictures

Posted on March 14, 2011March 30, 2011
byJack Montgomery

It was loud; it was brash; it was colourful, it was crazy and it was even a bit wet. But most of all Carnival on Tenerife was a lot of fun and Tenerife Magazine was in the thick of the action

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Fiesta de la Esperanza

Posted on January 25, 2011January 29, 2011
byColin Kirby

Title: Fiesta de la Esperanza Location: Plaza de GuazaLink out: Click hereDescription: Festival of Hope – get to know some of the people of Senegal and sample their music, food…

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Leading A Horse To Water is Easy At San Sebastian Fiesta In La Caleta

Posted on January 21, 2011February 12, 2011
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byColin Kirby

Rockets tore through the sky, church bells peeled and pigeons erupted from their baskets. It was a wake up call for horses, sheep, goats and foals not to mention the thousands of locals and tourists that had converged on La Caleta in Costa Adeje to honour San Sebastian.

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Finding Traditional Tenerife at the Dia de la Trilla

Across much of Tenerifed, the land is farmed using agricultural practices that haven’t changed greatly in a hundred years. The Dia de la Trilla celebrates some of the most ingenious of these[…]

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Street Gardening ““ The Corpus Christi Flower Carpets

Posted on May 20, 2010June 14, 2010
byAndy Montgomery

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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