Tenerife
Tenerife is the largest of the Canary Islands and is a great place to travel. British, Nordic and German tourists come in their tens of thousands every year to visit its spectacular beaches and lively nightlife.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Santa Cruz de Tenerife and San Cristóbal de La Laguna.
Santa Cruz de Tenerife
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Santa Cruz de Tenerife is the capital and largest city of Tenerife. It's also the capital city of the Canary Islands, together with Las Palmas.
San Cristóbal de La Laguna
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San Cristóbal de La Laguna, informally known as La Laguna, is a city in Tenerife. It is the oldest city on the island and has a well-preserved city centre, and in 1999 was designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Teide National Park
Teide National Park is Europe's most visited national park with over 4 million visitors in 2016. With an area of 190 km² it occupies the highest 10% of Tenerife's land area, one of the Canary Islands which administratively belong to Spain.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Puerto de la Cruz and Candelaria.
Puerto de la Cruz
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Puerto de la Cruz is a city on the island of Tenerife. It is more family-friendly than the other tourist areas of Tenerife. It is also the longest-established and most complete of all resorts on Tenerife.
Candelaria
Candelaria is a city on the east shore of the island Tenerife in the Canary Islands archipelago. It is a city of 28,000 inhabitants, best known for its basilica which includes the sculpture of the Virgin Mary and mural paintings.
La Orotava
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La Orotava is a city of 42,000 people in Tenerife. Its historic centre is included in the Inventory of the European Cultural Heritage Protection, and much of the Teide National Park is in the municipality.
Icod de los Vinos
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Icod de los Vinos is in northwest Tenerife, Canary Islands. Icod de los Vinos is known for its vineyards, banana plantations, and its magnificent drago tree.
Güímar
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Güímar is a town on the island of Tenerife in the Canary Islands archipelago. It is best known for its 6 Guanche pyramids, and for a ravine called the Barranco de Badajoz.
Santiago del Teide
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Santiago del Teide is a town and a municipality in the western part of the island Tenerife, Canary Islands, and part of the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
Garachico
Garachico is a municipality and town on the northern coast of Tenerife, about 52 km West of the capital Santa Cruz de Tenerife, 50 km from Tenerife North Airport and 67 km from Tenerife South Airport.
Granadilla de Abona
Granadilla de Abona is a town of 5,600 inhabitants in southern Tenerife, the largest of the Canary Islands.
Guía de Isora
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Guía de Isora is a town in the southern region of Tenerife. It is an agricultural centre, known for its many greenhouses, easily recognizable by their plastic-covered roofs to reduce evaporation.
Vilaflor
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Vilaflor is a town on the flanks of El Teide on Tenerife, the largest of the Canary Islands. It lies off the beaten track and has therefore largely retained its originality.
Tegueste
Tegueste is a municipality of 11,000 people in the metropolitan area of Tenerife. Tegueste is one of the highest municipalities on Tenerife, at 545 m above sea level.
El Sauzal
El Sauzal is a town and a municipality in the northeastern part of the island of Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain. It is located on the north coast, 12 km west of San Cristóbal de La Laguna, 13 km northeast of La Orotava and 18 km west of the island's capital, Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
Playa de las Américas
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Playa de las Américas together with Los Cristianos and Costa Adeje is a city in the south of Tenerife. The different names are part of separate local government regions but are otherwise indistinguishable from each other.
Los Cristianos
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Los Cristianos is one of the most popular tourist centres in the south of Tenerife, and has become known for its sandy beaches. It is a town of about 21,000 permanent residents that is 2 km southeast of Playa de las Américas and 5 km southeast of Costa Adeje, but it is the most authentic of these three, where locals mix with tourists.
Costa Adeje
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Costa Adeje is a resort town north of Los Cristianos. The name derives from the nearby town inland Adeje. It is roughly 2 km north of Playa de las Américas and 5 km north-west of Los Cristianos.
Masca
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Masca is a mountain village in the west of Tenerife and regarded as the most beautiful and picturesque village on the island. Masca is at 650 m altitude about 100 inhabitants.
Los Gigantes
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Los Gigantes is a resort town in Tenerife. The greater area includes Puerto de Santiago and Playa de la Arena to its south, all of which nowadays have merged together into one connected entity. This article covers the whole area.
Anaga Rural Park
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The Anaga Rural Park is a national park covering most of the Anaga Massif in the northeast of the island Tenerife, the largest of the Canary Islands. The Anaga Rural Park is the second most important natural heritage site of Tenerife, after the Teide National Park.
El Médano
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El Médano is a town in Granadilla de Abona. El Médano is one of the world's best windsurfing and kitesurfing locations, with three different windsurfing spots, the Bay, the Harbour Wall, and Cabezo Beach.
San Andrés
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San Andrés is coastal town on Tenerife, the largest of the Canary Islands. It is best known for its castle and 1-km-long Las Teresitas beach.
Tenerife
- Type: Island with 907,000 residents
- Description: largest island of the Canary Islands
- Also known as: “Island of Tenerife”, “Island of Teneriffe”, “Nivaria”, “Tenerife Island”, and “Teneriffe”
- Categories: volcanic island, administrative territorial entity, and tourist destination
- Location: La Orotava, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain, Iberia, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Zulu—“Tenerife” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Tenerife”
- Albanian: “Tenerife”
- Amharic: “ቴኔሪፌ”
- Arabic: “تنريفه”
- Arabic: “تنريفي”
- Arabic: “تينيريف”
- Arabic: “تينيريفي”
- Aragonese: “Tenerife”
- Armenian: “Տեներիֆե”
- Asturian: “Tenerife”
- Azerbaijani: “Tenerife”
- Basque: “Tenerife”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Тэнэрыфэ”
- Belarusian: “Тэнэрыфэ”
- Bengali: “তেনেরিফে”
- Breton: “Tenerife”
- Bulgarian: “Тенерифе”
- Catalan: “Tenerife”
- Cebuano: “Isla de Tenerife”
- Chechen: “Тенерифе”
- Chinese: “特內里費島”
- Chinese: “特内里费”
- Chinese: “特内里费岛”
- Chinese: “特尼里弗”
- Chinese: “特尼里弗島”
- Chinese: “特納利夫島”
- Chinese: “聽那臘飛島”
- Croatian: “Tenerife”
- Czech: “Tenerife”
- Danish: “Tenerife”
- Danish: “Teneriffa”
- Dutch: “Tenerife”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تنايريفى”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تنريف”
- Egyptian Arabic: “تينيريفى”
- Esperanto: “Tenerife”
- Esperanto: “Teneriffa”
- Esperanto: “Tenerifo”
- Estonian: “Tenerife”
- Faroese: “Tenerife”
- Finnish: “Tenerife”
- Finnish: “Teneriffa”
- French: “Île de Ténérife”
- French: “Nivaria”
- French: “Pluitalia”
- French: “Tenerife”
- French: “Ténérife”
- French: “Teneriffe”
- French: “Ténériffe”
- Galician: “Tenerife”
- Georgian: “ტენერიფე”
- German: “Insel des ewigen Frühlings”
- German: “Tenerife”
- German: “Teneriffa”
- Greek: “Τενερίφη”
- Gujarati: “ટેનરીફ”
- Haitian: “Tenerife”
- Hawaiian: “Heūeke”
- Hebrew: “טנריף”
- Hebrew: “טנריפה”
- Hindi: “तेनरीफ़”
- Hungarian: “Tenerife”
- Hungarian: “Teneriffa”
- Icelandic: “Tenerife”
- Icelandic: “Tenerífe”
- Ido: “Tenerife”
- Inari Sami: “Tenerife”
- Indonesian: “Tenerife”
- Interlingue: “Tenerife”
- Irish: “Tenerife”
- Italian: “Tenerife”
- Japanese: “テネリフェ”
- Japanese: “テネリフェ島”
- Javanese: “Tenerife”
- Kabyle: “Tenerife”
- Kalaallisut: “Tenerife”
- Kazakh: “Тенерифе”
- Korean: “테네리페 섬”
- Korean: “테네리페”
- Korean: “테네리페섬”
- Kurdish: “Tenerife”
- Ladino: “Tenerife”
- Latin: “Insula Nivaria”
- Latin: “Nivaria”
- Latin: “Thenerife”
- Latvian: “Tenerife”
- Lithuanian: “Tenerifė”
- Lombard: “Tenerife”
- Low German: “Tenerife”
- Luxembourgish: “Teneriffa”
- Macedonian: “Тенерифе”
- Malagasy: “Tenerife”
- Malay: “Pulau Tenerife”
- Malay: “Tenerife”
- Maori: “Tenerife”
- Marathi: “तेनेरिफ”
- Marathi: “तेनेरीफ द्वीप”
- Marathi: “तेनेरीफ”
- Mongolian: “Тенерифе”
- Neapolitan: “Tenerife”
- Nepali: “टेनेरिफे”
- Northern Frisian: “Teneriffa”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tenerife”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tenerife”
- Norwegian: “Tenerife”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Tenerife”
- Ossetian: “Тенерифе”
- Persian: “تنریف”
- Persian: “تنریفه”
- Persian: “تنه ریف”
- Persian: “تنهٔ ریف”
- Persian: “تنهریف”
- Persian: “جزیره تنریف”
- Persian: “جزیرهٔ تنریف”
- Piemontese: “Tenerife”
- Polish: “Tenerife”
- Polish: “Teneryfa”
- Portuguese: “Tenerife”
- Romanian: “Insula Tenerife”
- Romanian: “Tenerife”
- Romanian: “Teneriffa”
- Russian: “Тенериф”
- Russian: “Тенерифе”
- Samogitian: “Tenerėfė”
- Sanskrit: “टेनेरीफे”
- Sardinian: “Tenerife”
- Saterfriesisch: “Teneriffa”
- Scots: “Island o Tenerife”
- Scots: “Tenerife”
- Scottish Gaelic: “Tenerife”
- Serbian: “Тенерифе”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Tenerife”
- Sicilian: “Tenerife”
- Slovak: “Tenerife”
- Slovenian: “Tenerife”
- Southern Sotho: “Tenerife”
- Spanish: “Achinech”
- Spanish: “Achineche”
- Spanish: “Achinet”
- Spanish: “Isla de Tenerife”
- Spanish: “Tenerife”
- Spanish: “Tinerfena”
- Spanish: “Tinerfeña”
- Spanish: “Tinerfeno”
- Spanish: “Tinerfeño”
- Standard Moroccan Tamazight: “ⵜⵉⵏⵉⵔⵉⴼⵉ”
- Swahili: “Tenerife”
- Swedish: “Tenerife”
- Swedish: “Teneriffa”
- Swedish: “Teneriffe”
- Tagalog: “Tenerife”
- Thai: “เกาะเตเนริเฟ”
- Thai: “เตเนริเฟ”
- Turkish: “Tenerife Adası”
- Turkish: “Tenerife”
- Ukrainian: “Тенерифе”
- Urdu: “ٹینرائف”
- Venetian: “Tenerife”
- Vietnamese: “Tenerife”
- Waray (Philippines): “Tenerife”
- Welsh: “Tenerife”
- Western Frisian: “Tenerife”
- Western Frisian: “Teneryf”
- Western Mari: “Тенерифе”
- Western Panjabi: “تنریف”
- Wu Chinese: “特内里费岛”
- Xhosa: “Tenerife”
- Yiddish: “טענעריפע”
- Yoruba: “Tenerife”
- Yue Chinese: “特內里費島”
- Zulu: “Tenerife”
- “Tenerėfė”
- “Tenerife”
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