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Santa Cruz de Tenerife: Tenerife Carnival (end of February)

Tenerife Carnival (end of February)
Category: Events & Festivals in Santa Cruz de Tenerife
The fiesta begins at the end of February - the few days leading up to the start of Lent.The carnival festa is typical for all regions of Spain but it is particularly famous in Cadiz and Tenerife. It also has a strong tradition in the gay district of Chueca in Madrid and in Sitges near Barcelon...

Teguise

Castillo de Santa Barbara
Category: Fortress in Teguise

Arrecife

Museum of Contemporary Art
Category: Museum in Arrecife
Arrecife town museum of Contemporary Art is situated inside the Castle of San Jose ( "Castillo de San Juan", called also Castillo del Hambre) and showing several outstanding works of Cesar Manrique. It is among Arrecife`s major attractions.

Santiago del Teide

volcano Mount Teide
Category: Volcano in Santiago del Teide
volcano Mount Teide is situated of Island of Tenerife. The entire island has volcanic origins but it is dominated by the 3718 meters high volcano Mount Teide with its mighty crater. The Teide is not only the highest mountain of all Spain, but also the mountain with the highest elevation in all the...

Telde

Rotonda El Acueducto
Category: Ancient architecture in Telde

Puerto de la Cruz

Loro Parque ZOO
Category: ZOO in Puerto de la Cruz
Loro Parque is a first class zoo and parrot attraction in Puerto de la Cruz (in the northern part of the Tenerife Island). There are all the typical zoo animals such as gorillas and alligators, plus the aquarium which even has sharks. The parrot shows, penguins and dolphins are amongst the many popu...

URL: http://loroparque.com‎

Barlovento

Church Iglesia de Nuestra Señora del Rosario
Category: Church in Barlovento
Church Nuestra Señora del Rosario's in Barlovento (La Palma island, Canaries) was started in the end of XVI-th century and finished in XVII-th century. It has an only big-sized nave whose upper end is marked out by a red tuff arch.

San Bartolome de Tirajana

Theme Parks "Sioux City"
Category: Attraction in San Bartolome de Tirajana
The "Sioux City" is a theme park in San Bartolome de Tirajana (Grand Canary). Covering a surface of 320.000 sq. meters, this park is a replica of a Wild West town with its typical houses, a church, a ranch, a bank and a saloon.

URL: http://www.spain-grancanaria.com/uk/places/sioux.html

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

Film Festival Internacional de Cine (Mid-March)
Category: Events & Festivals in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
This International film festival is held annually in the middle of March in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. It ran for the first time in the year 2000 and till nowadays its role is to allow the survival of creative , independent film.

Puntagorda

Feast of the Almond Bloom (end of January, begining of February)
Category: Events & Festivals in Puntagorda
The almond plantation on La Palma has a long tradition. At end of January or begining of February people from the whole island drawn to Puntagorda to celebrate this Traditional village feast. There are lots of folk music and dancing, free wine and almonds, market stalls, dance bands and street bar...

Paso (El)

Birds Paradise
Category: ZOO in Paso (El)
The "Birds’ Paradise" (Paraíso de las Aves) is situated near El Paso. There can be seen an interesting collection of local plants of the island - different birds from all continents, flying free in a birds’ house.

Santa Cruz De La Palma

Santa Catalina Royal Castle
Category: Fortress in Santa Cruz De La Palma
Santa Catalina is a small fortress situated on the Northern edge of Santa Cruz de La Palma, in the environs of La Alameda, overlooking the town. With its thick stone walls the fort was part of the defensive belt that once protected the city and was deflected many attacks from pirates and corsairs...

Fuencaliente De La Palma

Volcano de Teneguia
Category: Volcano in Fuencaliente De La Palma
Volcano de Teneguia is located at southern part of island of La Palma in municipality of Fuencaliente De La Palma. It is the younger volcano of all Canary Islands and Spain - the last eruption on La Palma (in 1971) was Teneguia volcano, and continued for 24 days. The landscape looks like from othe...

Tijarafe

Church of Our Lady of Candelaria
Category: Church in Tijarafe
The Church of Our Lady of Candelaria (Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de Candelaria) is a parish church in Tijarafe that was built in XVIth century (around 1530). It is surounded by the village`s piazza and the narrow adjoining streets. The church is a stone building and inside it can be seen outstand...

Adeje

Siam Park water-park
Category: Aquapark in Adeje
Siam Park aqua-park is situated south of town of Adeje and south-west of town of Arona. It opened its doors in 2008 an is one of the most spectacular theme park with water attractions in Europe. The water-park holds the record for the largest man made Wave Machine in Europe.Siam Park belongs to the ...

URL: http://www.siampark.net

Arona

Monkey Zoo Park
Category: ZOO in Arona
The Zoo Monkey Park is situated in the South of Tenerife near Los Cristianos (south-west of Arona). It is very enjoyable attraction for everyone. Except monkeys there are also other sorts of animals as: Ring Tailed Lemurs, iguanas, birds, crocodiles and tortoises and more. The visitors are allowed ...

San Miguel de Abona

Submarine Safaris
Category: Attraction in San Miguel de Abona
This attraction is an experience a dive on board a real submarine. It takes the clients below the unexplored waters of San Miguel Marina.The tourists will experience the true underwater world of Tenerife, previously reserved exclusively for divers. The submarine has professional crew and is air cond...

URL: http://www.submarinesafaris.com/

Mogan

Mogan beach
Category: Beach resort in Mogan
The beach of Mogan is located south-west of center of Mogan town in urbanization Puerto De Mogan. The district has also a beautiful marina (port of Mogan).

Agaete

God`s Finger rock
Category: Rock-formation in Agaete
"God`s Finger" ("Dedo de Dios") rock is famous rock structure in the Atlantic Ocean, located in the northern part of Gran Canaria, town of Agaete. located in Parque Nacional del Teide. During Tropical Storm Delta in November 2005, the thin top of the rocky monument was broken o...

Galdar

Church of Santiago
Category: Church in Galdar

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