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Market to scale new heights for highest town

Friday, April 13th, 2007
The highest town in Tenerife gets a new agricultural market this summer, set in the town square of Vilaflor. At over 4,500ft above sea level, Vilaflor is also Spain´s highest town. Inevitably, the new market will also become the country's highest. Vilaflor may be remote but it sits astride the well-trodden tourist route leading from the busy resorts of the south to the island’s crowning glory, Mount Teide. The new market will start with eight permanent stalls, where tourists and islanders will be able to buy locally grown and produced almonds, cheeses, local cakes and wines as well as examples of the town’s traditional lacework, known as ‘rosetas’. Initially, the market will be open at weekends only, though a definite starting date has still to be decided on.

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Memorial to air disaster victims

Tuesday, March 13th, 2007
A 60ft monument is to stand as a permanent memorial to the 583 people who died when two jumbo jets collided on the runway at Los Rodeos airport in the north of Tenerife 30 years ago. In what is regarded as the biggest air disaster in civil aviation history, a Boeing 747 operated by the Dutch airline KLM began its take off while another 747 belonging to the American carrier Pan Am was still taxiing on the runway. The airport was shrouded in fog that day, March 27, 1977, a contributing factor in the collision between the two aircraft. All 248 passengers aboard the KLM plane perished, while just 61 of the 396 on board the Pan Am flight survived. Ironically, neither flight was due to touch down in Tenerife that day but should have landed instead on the neighbouring island of Gran Canaria, where many of the passengers were ...

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Ferry service to link Tenerife and Madeira

Sunday, March 11th, 2007
A ferry service linking Tenerife with Madeira starts up again on June 16, providing a weekly service between the two islands for the duration of the summer. A new addition to the Naviera Armas fleet, the Volcan de Tamadaba, will operate the service. The new vessel, due to come into service in May, will be one of the biggest, fastest and most modern in the company’s fleet, with a top speed of 24 knots and a payload of up to 1,000 passengers and 500 cars. The ship will sail from Santa Cruz on Saturday evenings at 10.30pm, arriving at Funchal, the capital of Madeira, at 8am on Sunday morning. The return journey will see the vessel leaving Funchal at 7pm on Sundays, arriving back in Santa Cruz at 10am on Monday morning. Fares start at 50 euros for a one-way trip in a reclining seat and ...

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