On Friday 7 th September, the 1st “ Tapas Route� was inaugurated in Puerto de la Cruz, in a small ceremony in the Casa Pablo restaurant in the Avenida de Venezuela. The mayoress and an abundant group of restaurant representatives from Puerto took part, as well as severals members of T.V. communication.

On this route you can find about thirty restaurants in the Puerto area such as Casa Pablo, as mentioned above (Avenida de Venezuela), Rancho Grande (Paseo de San Telmo), Ebano Café (Plaza de la Iglesia), Dinámico (Plaza del Charco), Casa Régulo (calle Pérez Zamora), La Pandorga (calle Mequinéz), Casa Pache (calle de La Verdad), Granada – Casa Lolo (calle San Felipe) and a large etc.

For the modicum price of 2 € you can enjoy a delicious “tapa� and a cold beer or a glass of local wine. A perfect excuse to try Puerto´s excellent gastronomy while taking a walk around the attractive town!

The organizers have had the brilliant idea of handing out a ticket which marks off the restaurants as you go through them, thus giving access to various prizes such as pinafores, T-shirts, etc. Don´t miss this opportunity! You have until the 30 th September.

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Here we bring you some new photos of La Gomera. We took them last august, when we passed a few days on holidays at the little village of Lepe, a few minutes driving from Hermigua.

Lepe

 Hermigua from Lepe

 Vallehermoso beach

Another view of Vallehermoso beach

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After some days of well deserved holiday break our blog is back. We have some new activities, places and restaurants to recommend both in Tenerife and La Gomera.

Keep watching!

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The Canaries is one of the best places in the world to study volcanoes and volcanic processes, even though the islands are rarely identified as one of the biggest volcanic complexes of the planet. The variety of rock formations and volcanic structures monopolise the landscape almost completely.

Although we inmediately associate the idea of volcanoes with destruction, we must remember that they created the islands, shaping them to their own whims sice their activity began twenty million years ago. However, the most interesting aspect is the so-called historic eruptions, as there exist documentary evidence.

In Tenerife there is evidence of four indisputable eruptions. The first of them, in 1705, was preceded by a week of earth tremors. On 5th January, the activity resumed with greater intensity and lava flowed from over 30 different craters. This activity was responsible fot the formation of the Fasnia, Siete Fuentes and Arafo volcanoes.

A year later, the eruption of Montaña Negra began. During the 9 days of activity it destroyed most of the town of Garachico and its port, which was the most important of the island at that time.

1798 saw the eruption of Chaorra or Las Narices del Teide. It lasted three months and was the longest of the eruptions which occurred on Tenerife in chronicled history.

The eruption of Chinyero, which lasted 10 days, was the last to occur on Tenerife.

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Tomorrow, tuesday 17th july, is a great day for all the inhabitants of Puerto de la Cruz, cause they celebrate the "Embarkation day", in honor of "La Virgen del Carmen".

From early in the morning, there are all sort of activities, which TenerifeCountryVillas.com recommends you no to loose.

• 07:00h: Reveille all across the streets of the city center.
• 09:00h: Mass in honour of Ntra. Sra. la Virgen del Carmen, at the wharf chappel.
• 10:00h: Great chocolate degustation, at the wharf.
• 11:00h: Folcloric parade.
• 15:00h: Great cucaña (a must).
• 17:45h: Procession of La Virgen del Carmen and San Telmo, following the traditional maritime route.

We hope you'll enjoy this day, that is so special for the people in Puerto de la Cruz.

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Here we enclose you two photos of this year Romería of La Orotava, that were taken by two of our clients. They stayed at TC-04 near Puerto de la Cruz, and had a great time in Tenerife.

 

 

TenerifeCountryVillas.com allways recommends to its clients those activities that shouldn't be missed, like local "fiestas" and others.

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As promissed, TenerifeCountryVillas.com brings you some photos of last year July Festivities in Puerto de la Cruz.

All the photos are from the sea procession of "La Virgen del Carmen". TenerifeCountryVillas.com recommends you not to miss it. It will take place next Thursday 17th July.

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We have not been sent yet the Cultural Programme for the Fiestas de Julio (July local festivities) but we invite you to ask for the programme at the Tourist Office next to the Town Hall, as there is a list there of events, processions, ect. Puerto de la Cruz is a very busy town during those dates, so we recommend to park directly on the Priavet parkings. In any case, these are the most important events:

• Satuday 14th July: Parade anouncing the Fiestas of Virgen del Carmen.
• Sunday 15th July: Procession of  “Gran Poder De Diosâ€� from the Main Church Nuestra Señora de Francia.
• Monday 16th July: Procession.
• Tuesday 17th July: The biggest bank holiday in Puerto with the “Embarcación de la Virgen del Carmenâ€� taking the Madonna on a boat into the sea, a very intensting and spectacular religious scene from 18:00 or 19:00 hrs, although the “fiestaâ€� begins on the morning. Try to park on the parking under the bus station.

TenerifeCountryVillas.com will soon post you some photos of last year festivities.

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The World Heritage Committee today inscribed two natural sites on UNESCO’s World Heritage List: Teide National Park (Spain); Primeval Beech Forests of the Carpathian (Slovakia, Ukraine).

Situated on the island of Tenerife, Teide National Park covers 18,990 ha and features the Teide-Pico Viejo stratovolcano that, at 3,718 m, is the highest peak in Spain. Standing 7,500m above the ocean floor, it is regarded as the world’s third tallest volcanic structure and is situated in a spectacular environment. The visual impact of the site is all the greater due to atmospheric conditions that create constantly changing textures and tones in the landscape and a ‘sea of clouds’ that forms a visually impressive backdrop to the mountain. Teide is of global importance in providing evidence of the geological processes that underpin the evolution of oceanic islands, complementing those of volcanic properties already on the World Heritage List, such as the Hawaii Volcanoes National Park (U.S.A.).

UNESCO Press Release N°2007-79

Today it was celebrated the "Romería" of La Orotava, in Tenerife. Despite that it rains a little, the streets of the historical centre of the village were full of folklore, typical decorated wheelbarrows, canarian music, "papas" and "mojo",... 

And, as all the last years, all the young people went to "El Orejas", where the party is still on...

As soon as we have some photos, we will publish them so you can figure how "La Romería" is.

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Tomorrow, Thursday June 14th, will be celebrated the famous Corpus Christi Procession at La Orotava, Tenerife. All the streets of the beautiful historical centre of the city will be covered of gourgeous carpets made of flowers.

And the colophon is the world famous sandmade carpet of the City Council Square, in which lots of craftmans have been working for the last weeks. It's worth to queue to access to the City Council balcony so you can look at this master work from a high place.

 And this weekend, don't miss the "Baile de magos" on friday night and the typical "Romería de San Isidro" on sunday. Don't forget your leather wine bottle!

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Last weekend (from 1st to 3rd june) San Telmo's "Fiestas" 2007 took place in Puerto de la Cruz. There were activities for all the family, from fishing to swimming competitions and sack races. There also were music performances and even a tipical "guateque" that last till very early in the morning.

And if that was not enough, you could have a good plate of spanish "paella" with some beer or other drink, for the price of only 3€.

We enclose you a photo of the beach as it was at midday, so you can see how great was the event.

TenerifeCountryVillas.com recomends you not to miss this event if you are planning to come to Tenerife next summer. And don't forget to visit our portfolio of holiday homes in Tenerife, we'll find the perfect that fits what your family deserves.

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Here we bring you the programme of Aguaviva Canarias 2007, a music festival that will be celebrated from next Thursday June 28th till Sunday July 1st at Arona, Tenerife.

Thursday June 28th. Opening.

• Macaco
• Mastretta
• XARXA Teatre

Friday June 29th.

• Keane
• La Oreja de Van Gogh
• Miguel Bosé
• Dover
• The Pinker Tones
• Zuco 103

Saturday June 30th.

• Fito & Fitipaldis
• Muchachito Bombo Infierno
• Jarabe de Palo
• Sargento García
• Spektrum

Sunday July 1st. Farewell party.

• La Excepción
• Haze
• Alma sin sueño

TenerifeCountryVillas.com hopes you'll enjoy the party.

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20 concerts with the most explosive national and international groups. More than 30 hours of live music on 4 stages. 4 days of meetings and reflections with workshops, diving, expositions, camping, conferences, underwater cinema, environmental fair...

Let yourself go by the rhythm of the sea, to the melody of the sounds to the open sea of Aguaviva Canarias. Living Aguaviva is to submerge in a world of sensations. Is to discover the variety of lifes that exist from our coast to the deepness of the oceans. Is to uderstand them. Is to learn from them. Is to love them and wish to protect them.

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Last Wednesday 30th may, considering that it was holiday (Canary Islands' Day), we decided to go to Candelaria. Apart from the obligatory visit to the Basilica, we take a walk through the new litoral of the city, a magnific example of how to improve the coast preserving the natural environment.

It's a pleasure to walk just in front of the blue sea, with wide resting places with swings for the childs.

After swimming a while we decided to have lunch in one of the restaurants that you can find there. At random we took a table in one called Crisol: very good the fish made croquettes, tasty the "pasta" and excelent the sirloin with mushrooms and lentil purée. Don't miss the apple pie with vanilla icecream, it's delicious!

TenerifeCountryVillas.com will include restaurant Crisol  (Candelaria) in its list of recommendations to the clients staying in this zone of Tenerife.

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