Canary Islands, Spain
Tenerife
An island of two moods — the sunlit resort south, and the green, volcanic north beneath Mount Teide.
Tenerife holds year-round warmth in the middle of the Atlantic: golden beaches and marina promenades in the south, laurel forests, black-sand coves and volcanic ridges in the north.
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Heritage
A little history.
Tenerife was home to the Guanches, the island's indigenous people, long before Castilian ships arrived in 1494. Their cave dwellings, mummies and stepped pyramids at Güímar still puzzle historians, and Guanche words survive in place names all over the island.
After the conquest, the port of Santa Cruz and the wine town of La Orotava grew rich on sugar and Malmsey wine shipped to England — Shakespeare name-checks Canary wine twice. La Laguna, the island's first capital, was laid out on a grid that became the blueprint for colonial cities across Latin America and is now a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Above it all stands Mount Teide, at 3,715m the highest peak in Spain and the third-tallest volcano on earth. The Guanches believed the devil was imprisoned inside it; today its crater floor is a national park and one of the clearest stargazing sites in the northern hemisphere.
In Film
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Two Of You
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