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Paragliding festival lures the world’s best

Wednesday, April 11th, 2007
The skies over Socorro beach in the north of Tenerife will be ablaze with colour between April 27 and May 1 when the third Los Realejos International Paragliding Festival takes place. The five-day festival will feature some of the world’s leading exponents of the arts of paragliding, hang gliding and parachuting. The festival has quickly established itself on the international schedule of paragliding events, due in no small part to the fact that Tenerife offers perfect all-year-round conditions for the sport. At the first staging of the event two years ago, two new world records were set, one for paramotor altitude at 5,395 metres and the other in acrobatics when 75 manoeuvres were achieved in a vertical tumble of 1,900 metres, massively overhauling the previous record of 30. The first day of this year’s festival will be devoted to a welcoming party, checking of participants’ ...

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

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

Carnival in every town and village

Monday, February 19th, 2007
Carnival is celebrated in every town and village on the island, though the most spectacular are those in the capital of Santa Cruz and the resort town of Puerto de la Cruz. Some of the smaller towns and villages try to organise their events so as not to clash with the two giant events. But for all of them, carnival follows a traditional pattern of groups of music, dance and sumptuous costumes. The burial of the sardine is another ritual conducted everywhere, though those in Los Realejos, La Orotava and Puerto de la Cruz are considered to be the best. Each of the cities, towns and villages sets a theme for its carnival celebrations, this year’s being the ‘World of Fashion’ in Santa Cruz and ‘Paris of the 1920s’ for ...

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Comments: Leave a Comment » Categories: All about Tenerife, Carnival, Los Cristianos, Los Gigantes, Los Realejos, Puerto de la Cruz, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Tourism

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