Canary Islands, Tenerife, Spain

This morning, we took a walking excursion in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, the capital of the Canary Islands, a beautiful island off the northwest coast of Africa. Santa Cruz has been named as one of the top 10 small cities in the world to live.

200,000 residents live here enjoying a comfortable pace of life. Much history and a great variety of architecture, old buildings, churches, great parks, clean city and lots of shopping and restaurants; lovely beaches, too.

We had a great walking guide who coaxed us through a leisurely pace. We visited the beautiful church of St. Francis of Assisi, as well as the colonial church of the Immaculate Conception. We passed the Palacio de Carta built in the 1700’s, the old Civil Hospital, and the Auditorio de Tenefire, the work of Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava. We viewed the Museo of Nature and Man. We peeked into the Museum of Fine Arts and also Tenerife Espacio de las Artes (TEA). We walked through Parque García Sanabria, a beautiful park with trees from all parts of the world

We stopped into the marketplace with it’s array of beautiful flowers, fruits and vegetables, local cheeses, Iberian jamon (ham), tapas, olives and other local foods and crafts.

A wonderful day!Read more