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Cinema under the stars

Monday, July 9th, 2007
Open-air cinema is a popular attraction on Tenerife during the summer. The island capital of Santa Cruz has a full programme of films throughout June, July and August, the biggest of which are staged in the Parque Cultural Viera y Clavico. Details of individual screenings can be found on the Santa Cruz town hall website, www.sctfe.es In Los Realejos, the cinema takes to the beach in August with movies being shown on the Playa del Socorro. Open-air cinema is also part of the Los Realejos programme of activities for the Carmen Festival between July 6-14. Three films are being shown this week (July 9, 10 and 11) in the Plaza de San Agustín. More details are on the town hall website at www.ayto-realejos.es

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Comments: Leave a Comment » Categories: All about Tenerife, Carmen Festival, Culture, Films, Los Realejos, Santa Cruz de Tenerife

Buses staging a comeback

Friday, July 6th, 2007
Mindful of the need to get people out of their cars and on to public transport, the island authorities on Tenerife are looking to increase the frequency and coverage of the services. Just a few weeks after the launch of the new tram service that connects the island capital of Santa Cruz with the neighbouring town of La Laguna, the island bus operator, TITSA, has announced a raft of improvements to services in the north of the island. The frequency of services between the northern town of Icod de los Vinos and Santa Cruz (service 106) has been boosted by an additional eight journeys a day. Line 363, which runs from Puerto de la Cruz to Buenavista del Norte ...

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Comments: Leave a Comment » Categories: All about Tenerife, Buenavista del Norte, Buses, Environment, Icod de los Vinos, La Laguna, Los Realejos, Puerto de la Cruz, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Shopping, Tourism, Transport

Big bangs for big bucks

Wednesday, May 2nd, 2007
With a massive budget of 162,000 euros, the May celebrations at Los Realejos in the north of Tenerife are spectacular to say the least. The fiesta programme of events began on April 26 and some, notably the sports tournaments, continue until the end of May. But the one event that draws extraordinary crowds to the town is the Exhibicíon Pirotécnica, this year on Thursday, May 3. Two rival manufacturers supply the fireworks for the late-night display, which is generally regarded as being the best anywhere in the Canaries, if not the whole of Spain. And this is on an island where they need little or no excuse for staging spectacular fireworks displays. Thursday’s pyrotechnic show will come at the height of the Festival of the Cross, around which the whole of Los Realejos’s month-long celebrations are centred. The month-long event celebrates the culture and important traditions of ...

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Comments: Leave a Comment » Categories: All about Tenerife, Festivals, Los Realejos, May celebrations, Tourism

Taking the high road is an expensive business

Monday, April 30th, 2007
The remote and mountainous north west corner of Tenerife has received a major boost with news that work has started on what is likely to be the most expensive stretch of road anywhere in the Canary Islands. The new road, between Adeje in the south west and Santiago del Teide in the north west, is one of the few remaining sections required to complete the island’s equivalent of London’s M25 orbital motorway. The civil engineering challenges to be faced in the project are huge, with tunnels, viaducts, underpasses and overpasses all figuring in the construction work, which it is estimated will cost a staggering €168,000,000. Critics of the scheme, led by the environmental lobby, say it will cost much more than that. The building of another section of the road, between San ...

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Comments: Leave a Comment » Categories: Adeje, All about Tenerife, Icod de los Vinos, Los Realejos, Roads, San Juan de la Rambla, Santiago del Teide, Transport

Weather delays world record attempt

Saturday, April 21st, 2007
Stormy weather has forced Spanish hang-glider pilot Ramon Morillas to delay his attempt at a new world record distance in a powered paraglider. His record attempt, mostly over the Atlantic Ocean, will see him endeavour to cover the 1,350km (nearly 840 miles) from Jerez de La Frontera in southern Spain to Tenerife, a journey that will see him flying down the west coast of Africa. Ramon has timed his record bid to coincide with the third Los Realejos International Paragliding Festival, due to start on Friday (April 27) at Socorro beach in the north of Tenerife. The holder of five current FAI (Fédération Aéronautique Internationale) world records, Ramon now plans to start his epic flight on Monday (April 23), aiming to beat his own existing distance record of 951km. He will have with him a fuel load of 65kg and special safety equipment that includes ...

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Comments: Leave a Comment » Categories: All about Tenerife, Festivals, Los Realejos, Paragliding, Paragliding festival, Ramon Morillas, Sport

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