Interesting places

In 1943 the municipal market Our Lady of Africa began its journey. The city had grown and the old market which is just on the other side of the Ravine of the Saints had become too small to provide for the bustling city. All the food business, not only for the city but the [...]

El parque municipal García Sanabria de Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Canarias, España), construido en 1926, está situado entre las calles Numancia, Méndez Núñez, Dr. José Naveiras y Rambla de Santa Cruz, y nació de la necesidad de dotar a la ciudad de una zona ajardinada amplia, combinada con fuentes y grupos arquitectónicos. Su nombre se debe al alcalde García Sanabria, que [...]

Of all the marine creatures, the dolphin is –perhaps- the animal that causes more sentiments and attraction in children and adults. And Loro Parque is not an exception: in our wide and innovative installations, visitors of all ages are amazed by the kindness, tenderness and intelligence that these cetaceans show in the presentations to [...]

Says José de Viera y Clavijo, writer, poet, naturalist and historian Tenerife (XVIII century), about the conditions for the cultivation of the vineyard: «The vines, brought to the islands by their conquerors and settlers, found a climate and floor most appropriate for their prosperity, for the dry, light, stony, gritty, chopped mixed lavas, and [...]