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Grand processions mark Holy Week in Tenerife

Saturday, March 31st, 2007
Palm Sunday marks the beginning of the most important week in the religious calendar in Tenerife, the start of Semana Santa, or Holy Week. Easter celebrations in Tenerife are known for their magnificent processions, which take place all over the island throughout the week, though the ones in La Laguna, La Orotava and Puerto de la Cruz are among the grandest. As the seat of the Bishop of Tenerife, the celebrations in La Laguna are the most important and culminate in the magnificent Magna procession on Viernes Santo (Good Friday, April 6), which starts at 5pm from the church of Nuestra Senora de la Concepcion, one of the oldest churches on the island, dating back to 1502. The Magna procession is followed by the Silence procession, starting at 9pm, in which all ...

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Comments: Leave a Comment » Categories: Adeje, All about Tenerife, Costa Adeje, Easter week, Festivals, Garachico, Guimar, La Laguna, La Orotava, Los Realejos, Puerto de la Cruz

Los Rodeos on the up and up

Tuesday, March 20th, 2007
Tenerife’s lesser-know Los Rodeos airport in the north of the island is undergoing a facelift. Los Rodeos is only six miles from the Tenerife capital of Santa Cruz and 12 miles from the popular resort of Puerto de la Cruz and the historic 500-year-old town of La Orotava. A new VIP lounge opened recently, part of an ongoing programme of improvements soon to include a new transit lounge, new ticket sales desks and the expansion of domestic and international arrivals areas. Despite being the first airport to open in Tenerife way back in 1930, Los Rodeos was forced to take a back seat as far as tourism was concerned when Reina Sofia airport opened in the south of the island in 1978. But after a sharp increase in passenger numbers ...

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Comments: Leave a Comment » Categories: All about Tenerife, La Orotava, Los Rodeos, Puerto de la Cruz, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Sport, Tourism

New Year date for new Cunard liner

Saturday, February 24th, 2007
Cunard’s new flagship cruise liner, the Queen Victoria, will spend New Year’s Eve in Tenerife. The 90,000 tons luxury liner, being built near Venice at a cost of over £250 million, is due to be launched in December of this year before embarking from Southampton on a ‘Maiden Canary Islands Festive Celebration, on December 21. The 16-night cruise will take in Vigo and Malaga in Spain, Lisbon, Madeira, the Canary islands of Las Palmas, Lanzarote and Tenerife, Casablanca and Gibraltar. The liner is due to dock at Santa Cruz at 8am on December 31, and a full day’s programme of excursions will be available for passengers, taking in the usual Tenerife attractions, such as Mount Teide, La Orotava , Puerto de la Cruz, Loro Parque, the Mercedes ...

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Comments: Leave a Comment » Categories: All about Tenerife, La Orotava, Locations, Mount Teide, Puerto de la Cruz, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Tourism

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