Los Cristianos exhibition looks at pirates, Swedish pioneers and the town’s past
Los Cristianos has changed a bit over the years. What was once a small fishing village is now one of the busiest tourist towns in...
Category: Stories & History
Finnish Woman Sold Everything at 65 and Moved to Tenerife With Just Two Suitcases
At 65, Tua Sjöblom sold her home, said goodbye to her children and grandchildren, packed two suitcases and moved from Finland to Tenerife. No property...
La Laguna Party Calls for Return of Historic Venue for Cristo Festivities Opening
One of La Laguna’s main annual celebrations could see its official opening return to a rather more civic setting if Unidas se puede gets its...
When Horses Came to Bajamar: A Small Chapter in Tenerife’s Tourism History
It is easy to forget how much Tenerife has changed. Today, tourism means airports, hotels, holiday apartments and traffic queues heading towards the coast. But...
How Los Rodeos Airport Helped Transform Tourism in Bajamar
The development of Tenerife North Airport was closely linked to the tourism boom that reshaped Bajamar during the 1960s and 1970s It’s easy to look...
Cuscoy: The Tenerife Archaeologist Who Saw the Dark Side of Mass Tourism
Luis Diego Cuscoy documented a Tenerife that was already beginning to disappear, and warned about the impact tourism could have on the island’s landscape, traditional...
The Mystery of the Virgin of Candelaria’s Disappearance During Tenerife’s Great Storm of 1826
Two centuries later, questions still surround the disappearance of the original image of the Canary Islands’ patron saint, swept out to sea during one of...
Icod El Alto keeps Tenerife’s ancestral cereal harvest alive
There are traditions in Tenerife that are about much more than simply marking a date on the calendar. The annual traditional cereal harvest in Icod...
La Laguna to Host Historic Photography Exhibition and Annual Photo Marathon This September
Photography enthusiasts and local history lovers will have plenty to enjoy this September as La Laguna hosts two popular events celebrating the municipality’s rich heritage...
Why Is La Laguna’s Plaza del Adelantado Called That? The History Behind One of Tenerife’s Most Famous Squares
Every day, thousands of people pass through Plaza del Adelantado, in the heart of San Cristóbal de La Laguna. It’s one of the city’s most...