Archive for the 'Culture' Category

Canary Islands Music Festival

The annual Canary Islands Music Festival takes place in the months of January and February and includes a wide range of wery well known artists and orchestras.
The concerts are taking place in Auditorio de Tenerife and the names include condictors and artist among others:
Claudio Abbado, Riccardo Muti, Carlo Maria Giulini and Daniel Barenboim. Not to […]

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Tenerife News: Santa Cruz Carnival 2007

It’s 2007, it’s soon February, it means Tenerife Canival Time! Yay

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Tenerife libraries, news and newspapers

We were doing some research into Tenerife libraries and newspapers and came across the Internet Library which have some good references to both libraries, museums and newspapers in Tenerife and Spain.

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Tenerife Carnival 2006 - Puerto de la Cruz

The Tenerife Carnival 2006 in Puerto de la Cruz is just around the corner. Puntoinfo have made a bunch info available here.

The carnival has been declared of international tourist interest, being one of the longest-standing carnivals of the island. Even during the time when the fiesta was banned, it has always managed to find […]

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Tenerife - Europe’s biggest street party

The annual Carnival is about to take place in Tenerife this month. From 19 February to 5 March the streets will be filled with happy dancing carnival guests enjoying the wonderfull atmosphere in Tenerife.

Europe Travel News reports:
The most celebrated or vibrant festival is the Tenerife Carnival, which occurs each year in Santa Cruz prior to […]

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Giant dogs in Las Palmas

They are not dangerous. News Canarias has the story on the big dogs:
In all 25 giant creatures will soon be making their presence felt on the city’s main squares and along the seafront at Las Canteras. The pets are part of a wider collection of 52 that had been on display during September in […]

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Clinton in Tenerife. Melchior attending Clinton Global Initiative

President Clinton came to visit Tenerife and invited Ricardo Melchior to experience Clinton Global Initiative.
ex-President of the USA Bill Clinton recently came to Tenerife, made a speech or two, played a bit of golf, missed a lot of meals, and flew off again, but not before extending an invitation to our President of the Cabildo, […]

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