Santa Cruz de Tenerife Travel Guide

 CharleneP Says:  There is many Divers Clubs to choose from. We went with Neptune Divers. We saw Small Baracudas, a small seahorse & a few other fishes. You can go for Try Dives, Shore Dives, Boat Dives, Wreck Dives, Night Dives & courses are available. 

 digate Says:  From January 26th until 21st February in Santa Cruz de Tenerife it's carnival time. It is the second biggest Carnival in the world next to Rio de Janeiro and is a MUST SEE at least once.This is the link where you will find the full... 

 digate Says:  It's the time of year when the traditional Belenes are opened to the public, they are Nativity scenes, they can be in door or out door, some are the normal Nativity Scenes eg. Mary,Joseph and baby Jesus being visited by the three kings, other like the famous San Mathias... 

 aaaarrgh Says:  The Museo Municipal de Belles Artes is a pleasant place to spend some time, especially on a hot day. This is Santa Cruz's main Fine Art Gallery. Many of the rooms are air conditioned, a welcome respite from the heat! Entry is FREE, opening times Monday to Friday 10am to... 

 aaaarrgh Says:  Santa Cruz is the location for the 'Museo de la Naturaleza y el Hombre', or in other words the 'Museum of Nature and Man'. This is a quite fabulous museum packed full with relics, pictures, videos and displays about the archaelogy, flora, fauna, anthropology and sociology of... 

 aaaarrgh Says:  If you have a guide book published before 2008, it will probably be out of date. Mine told me that the Tourist Office was located in the Palacio Insular on Santa Cruz's Plaza de Espana.In fact in the last couple of years the Plaza de Espana has been redesigned and... 

 Aitana Says:  It was named after the Mayor who approved its creation in 1926. It occupies 67,200 m^2.There is a great variety of plants. The tropical and subtropical species grow in abundance. Species that are common in the city are well represented in the park: Phoenix canariensis... 

 Aitana Says:  The Anaga massif (Macizo de Anaga) is at the northeastern end of the island. A cloud lives there perennially and allows the growth of the Laurisilva, a type of humid subtropical laurel forest. To go there from Santa Cruz de Tenerife, follow road TF-11 to San Andrés, then the... 

 steventilly Says:  You may or may not be able to see it from the picture but this place does some pretty strange sounding dishes. I have no idea what most of them are but most are I think, simply lost in translation.We have "mountain hard egg"Edge of calfMere to the plateCroquetas of... 

 dambigir Says:  best places to go out for dancing in santa de la crus, tenerife are located 5 mins walk from the Opera Theater, right after public swimming pools, next to Mc Donalds. Unfortunately i forgot names of these clubs. But they are huge and you can hardly miss them. Don't forget... 

 steventilly Says:  The Sunday Market in Santa Cruz takes place in the streets between the Cathedral and the Mercado Nuestra Senora de Africa. We strolled through it on our way to the bus station as we went for the bus to San Andres and a busy morning on the beach. It was a much more pleasant... 

 steventilly Says:  San Cristobel De La Laguna to give it its full and complete name is just 20 minutes by bus from Santa Cruz. La Laguna was the first capital of Tenerife, holding that title for some 200 years until Santa Cruz took over in the 1920's. It's also the second largest city of...