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Tenerife is a sunny island, which attracts all over the year

Monday, October 1st, 2007
The biggest island of the Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean with marvellous sunny beaches and warm temperatures during the whole year, this is Tenerife, the holiday island of the canary archipelago. You can admire wonderful landscapes of vulcanic origin and fertile, green areas abundantly covered with exotic plants. Tenerife is an ideal tourist destination at any time of the year. The island can be reached in only four hours of flight from Germany. Many flights arrive and leave daily at the two airports of the island. Tenerife offers a huge supply of accomodation like for example exclusive hotels, rural hotels, country houses and appartments. The tourist infrastructure of the island of Tenerife is ideal for all kind of holiday makers, for those who like shopping centers, beaches, restaurants, museums, hiking paths, discotheques, bars, sports facilities or wellness facilities.

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Exhibition reveals the secrets of old underwear

Saturday, April 14th, 2007
A hundred years of underwear is the unlikely theme of an exhibition currently being staged at the Museum of Anthropology in Tenerife. The years in question are from 1850-1950 and the exhibition includes more than 60 items of clothing that were once worn by men and women of the island, the grandparents, or even great-grandparents of today’s younger generation. The purpose of the exhibition is to show the rapid evolution in the design and use of materials in that time. The lingerie items that make up the exhibition are particularly well conserved because many of them have been hidden away in the depths of the museum for many years. Bodices, girdles, corsets, petticoats, nightdresses and other, more intimate items, including a heavy hand-knitted brassiere worn in the early 1900s, are included in the exhibition, part of the 20th anniversary celebrations of Casa de Carta in Valle de Guerra, ...

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