Architecture of Tenerife
Parque Nacional
A network of National Parks in the Canary Islands attempts to conserve the most typical ecosystems. The Teide National Park, in the centre of the island of Tenerife, shelters the best example of Canary Island vegetation.
Espacios Nnaturales
The island of Tenerife has a wide variety of endemic flora and fauna, as well as several different landscape structures; almost 45% of the island is protected in one way or another.
Museos en Tenerife
Culture loving visitors have a long list of both private and public art galleries and museums at their disposition: history, archaeology, anthropology, ethnography, science, crafts, fine arts and natural sciences.
Cocina tradicional
The island cuisine is one of the aspects of our culture that visitors generally know least about. It is however, highly interesting and can provide some very pleasant surprises for anyone who fancies a change from their usual diet or the dishes on offer at many international restaurants, whilst they are on holiday.
Lucha Canaria
Tenerife is the ideal place for all kinds of water sports, from spear fishing, fishing with a rod or deep-sea fishing to windsurfing – major international competitions are held in the area of El Medano – and the full range of water sports, al of which can be enjoyed all year round: sailing, diving, surfing, water skiing, canoeing, jet skis, etc.
Sanderismo
We suggest different routes to discover the most interesting places in Tenerife,setting out with your own means of transport. We recommend you set out early in the morning with a road map of the island.
The highlight of the first of which there are magnificent examples in La Orotava and La Laguna-are typical balconies and interior courtyards. In both, the protagonist is wood, pine tea islander, Usually, sometimes worked by hand primorosamente craft.
The facades of these buildings are usually simple, with few ornaments, which are left exclusively for large balconies Wood, cuajados of blinds, broad flight on the street. The windows are closed and a guillotine, it has, in the interior of seats attached to the wall.
The interior courtyards, authentic gardens, where, occasionally, still makes its appearance the destiladera (a curious and beautiful gimmick to filter water and keep it fresh), are surrounded by an arcade, sustained by a few columns of pine tea , Which gives the rooms and rooms of the house accessed by a wooden staircase also in harmony with the whole picture.
The colors of the facades of houses traditional and popular, thick walls, many different and often surprising, though, lately, there is a trend toward white uniform somewhat impersonal. Examples of this type of architecture are scattered throughout the island, but there are sets really interesting, as it can be seen even in the village of Chew.
The official buildings or religious han ido translating the passage of different styles prevailing in each period, since the immediate post-conquest some churches like La Concepcion de La Laguna-through trends baroque and neoclassical until modernists. La Laguna, La Orotava-whose towns are historic and artistic monuments-national, Santa Cruz and Puerto de la Cruz retain the traces of all these movements in the streets oldest and personal.
In the latest architecture worth noting, for its spectacular and original treatment of lines and spaces, the central building of CajaCanarias in the heart of the capital of the island.
El Auditorio de Tenerife is a splendid work of Santiago Calatrava, Spanish architect of great international prestige. Located on the coast of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, next to International Trade Fair and Congress, also signed by Calatrava . A large wing, which seems to emerge from the sea and fly on the deck, is the most unique architectural element of this extraordinary building, according to the author, represents a gesture of self-marked intention plastic, which transcend the nature of artistic indoor activities outwards.
