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Teide's
National Park
The most visited National Park of Spain. The biggest and the
oldest of the Canarian Park. Its landscape is one of the most
spectacular geological monument where volcanic mountains and
lava spreading take part of a fantastic picture of colours
and shapes. You cannot forget its biological importance, the
very high percentage of endemic vegetal especies and its numerous
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Rural
Park of Anaga
It is between the town of Santa Cruz and La Laguna. It has
great ecological value for its geology and its extraordinaire
biodiversidad natural que alberga. The macizo de Anaga, offers
great landscape, lost beaches, spectacular cliffs and laurisilva
forest, a treassure of the mediterranean vegetation, tipical
of the prehistoric age before human beeing. |
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Rural Park of Teno
Situated in the town of Buenavista. It is one of the most
beautiful places in Tenerife. Traditionally isolated due to
difficult access. It has great ecological , landscapes and
cultural values. The cultural values represent the traditional
island arquitecture. You can find vast zones of Laurisilva
and many animal species such as the fishing eagle the gigante
lizard of Teno. These are endemic species found only 12 years
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National Park of Garajonay
A boat trip of 20 minutes from Los Cristianos port, will take
us with our car to La Gomera Island, where Cristopher Columbus
stayed before leaving to discover America. You can visit the
Garajonay National Park. The Canarian Laurisilva, un ecosistema
relicto del Terciario desaparecido del continente como due
to climate changes del Cuaternario, encuentra refugio en la
zona de nieblas de las islas Canarias. Garajonay is nowdays
the best conserved proof of this ecosistema. It contains more
than half of the young forest of Laurisilva in the Canarian
Islands.
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La Caldera de Taburiente National
Park
Also from Los Cristianos Port, although trips are not so often,
we can visit the islands of La Palma and El Hierro, both declared
World Reservas Mundiales de la Biosfera. In La Palma, The
National Park of La Caldera de Taburiente, has an enormeus
circus of 8 km diametre with caldera look, where multiple
volcanic eruptions, great deslizamientos, the erosive force
of the water and the time have given shape to its geomorfology,
converting it in a sharp landscape with almost 2.000 m of
level changes.
The landscape of La Caldera de Taburiente is dominated by
a circle of mountains of 8 km diameter with level changes
of almost 2.000 mts. It contains a net of small rivers and
spectacular torrentes of great erosive strength. A big variety
of vegetal and animal species have developed here and this
includes a great number of Canarian endemic species. |
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Golf
Tenerife counts with 8 golf resorts and one more in La Gomera
island. The closest ones to La Malvasía, is the Amarilla
Golf (18 Holes), Golf del Sur (18 holes), Golf Centre of Los
Palos (9 holes) and Costa Adeje Golf (27 holes). All of them
within a radio of less than 35 kms from the rural houses. |
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La Laguna
Antient Capital of the Canarian . One of the oldest University
towns in Spain and sede episcopal. You can find in La Laguna
some of the most arquitectonic and historical valuable buildings
in the Canaries. San Cristóbal de La Laguna has a great
importance due to its map conception. It is the arquetipo
of the ciudad-territorio. It is the first sample of not fortificada
town, conceved and constructed based in a map inspired for
sailing, the cience in those days. Its space is organized
according to a new pacific social order inspired in the religious
doctrine of the milenio of the year 1500.
The map of the town is read as an “estelar map”
in which the reference correspond with particular reference
of the city and the relations between these references and
un todo. It has a simbolic meaning and it is interpreted like
a sea map or a constalation map of that time.
The 2nd of December 1999, the World Patrimonio Comitee, UNESCO)
in a meeting in Marrakech (Marroco) made public the approval
of the Human Patrimony title to the San Cristobal of La Laguna
city. |
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La
Orotava
Town of high historic value and very well conserved. It has
numerous houses of the island ancient aristocracy. The Corpus
Carpets are very famous, they are made of sand from El Teide
and flowers. The valley of La Orotava inspired admiration
comments in Humboldt and was the end of the Spanish Conquer
in Tenerife. |
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Puerto
de la Cruz
Within the Valley, you can find the Town of Puerto de La Cruz,
touristic town of the Canaries and Main Land Spain. You can
visit a very important Botanic Garden, El Loro Park, Pueblochico
and the Martiánez lakes, which are public swimming
pool designed by Cesar Manrique. |
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Garachico
The town of Garachico and its port, was funded by the Genova
bank man Cristobal de Ponte after the Conquer of Tenerife
in 1496. During the XVI and XVII century, Garachico turned
in to the principal port of the island. From Garachico, many
boats filled with wine and sugar would head towards America
and Europe. It was partially covered in volcanic lava by Trevejo
volcan in 1706. Garachico has always taken great care of its
enviroment and protected the most different cultural manifestaciones.
For all this, Garachico has been awarded by the Spanish Goverment
with the Gold Medal of Bellas Artes and was given by SM the
King of Spain in 1980. The town can be considered a museum. |
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Noisy
South
You may also feel like visiting the touristic towns of Los
Cristianos and Las Americas for shopping, for its beachs,
wale watching or to enjoy its night party atmosphere. This
towns are situated half an hour by car from Las Malvasías.
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