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 The Palmetum of Santa Cruz de Tenerife
The garden is being established on an old landfill at the edge of the sea, on the outskirts of Santa Cruz.
The climate of Tenerife, even and dry, is ideal for many species that cannot be grown on the Mediterranean for lack of winter warmth and would never grow well in many botanical gardens in the tropics due to excessive rain and humidity.
Scientists in Tenerife are deeply interested in island biology, and most tropical and subtropical archipelagoes are rich in exposed windy slopes, populated by hardy palms often in danger of extinction.
www.palms.org /palmsjournal/2001/palmetum.htm   (1756 words)

  
 Compare Prices and Read Reviews on Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands at Epinions.com
Tenerife is the largest of the Canary Island chain, which is located a few hundred miles off the coast of Morocco.
In fact, Playa is a part of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, the capital of Tenerife at 200,000 inhabitants.
What I loved about Tenerife (yes, I did love something about it!), was that once you got outside of the beach towns, it was a lovely, quiet, rural island with an incredible amount of world-class hiking and trekking to be had.
www.epinions.com /content_93463154308   (1196 words)

  
 Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Santa Cruz is the Tenerife’s capital city, as well being the second most populated city in the Canary Islands, with a population of more than 200,000.
Now, Santa Cruz de Tenerife is a city with large landscaped areas, combined with modernist architecture.
The tree-lined avenues, parks and squares are perfect for long strolls, and the lush green of Santa Cruz and the peacefulness alongside the year round sunny climate, makes Santa Cruz a wonderful place to purchase property for sale in Tenerife.
www.interealty-tenerife.com /santa-cruz-de-tenerife-properties.htm   (345 words)

  
 Spanish Language School in Tenerife, Spain.
The capital of Tenerife is the second most populated city of the Canary Islands with more than 200,000 inhabitants.
Its treelined avenues, parks and squares are ideal for strolling because the green of Santa Cruz complements its peacefulness and the sunny climate which it enjoys all year.
Tenerife is much more than sun and beaches, it is cultural mixture and above all the bridge to Latin America.
www.studyabroadinternational.com /Spain/Directory/Spain_D_Tenerife.html   (292 words)

  
 steventilly Santa Cruz de Tenerife Travel Page - VirtualTourist.com
Santa Cruz is the capital and largest city of Tenerife.
In fact much of Santa Cruz is a sprawling, modern city and all of the industry that you would associate with its status as the major seaport of the island.
Santa Cruz is a place that I will certainly visit again as it does have a quite quiet charm all of its own, and it is most definitely Spanish, paying little regard to the tourist hordes.
members.virtualtourist.com /m/e9bc/3e2a2   (517 words)

  
 Santa Cruz de Tenerife - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Santa Cruz de Tenerife (2005 population 221,627) is a Spanish city on the island of Tenerife, the largest and most populated of the Canary Islands as stated in the 2005 census.
Santa Cruz, being the centre of the Tenerife Metropolitan Area, is the logical hub for the island´s motorway network.
The Santa Cruz harbour is one of the busiests is Spain, and in three different quays hosts regular ferries, fast ferries, cruise ships and merchant ships.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Santa_Cruz_de_Tenerife   (1108 words)

  
 Tenerife. Christmas' nights - Sightseeing in Santa Cruz de Tenerife pictures on Worldisround
Sightseeing in Santa Cruz de Tenerife - travel photos - Christmas time in Tenerife is a little bit different for those who are used to have snow...
Christmas time in Tenerife is a little bit different for those who are used to have snow and/or low temperatures during this season of the year.
Santa Cruz de Tenerife is very well known as a "green city".
www.worldisround.com /articles/8240/text.html   (324 words)

  
 Santa Cruz de Tenerife   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Santa Cruz de Tenerife is a very friendly town with 211.930 inhabitants.
Close to Santa Cruz there are the beaches Las Gaviotas and Las Teresitas,
Puerto de la Cruz is Tenerife's most visited site, and due to its favored climate one of the most visited towns of Spain all the year through.
www.red2000.com /spain/canarias/tenerife/scruzt.html   (297 words)

  
 Santa Cruz De Tenerife Hotels and Accommodation in Santa Cruz De Tenerife
The Stil Plaza Tenerife is located in the centre of Santa Cruz.
The Colón Rambla Hotel is located right in the centre of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, two minutes from the Port, ten...
In Santa Cruz de Tenerife you will find an excelent place to relax, to do your shopping or carry out your business...
www.priceline.co.uk /pcln/location/en/spain/islas_canarias/tenerife/santa_cruz_de_tenerife   (324 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain & Portugal (Spanish And Portuguese Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spanish And Portuguese Political Geography
Santa Cruz de Tenerife[san´tu krOOz dA tAnArE´fA] Pronunciation Key, city (1990 pop.
222,892), capital of Santa Cruz de Tenerife prov., Spain, a port on Tenerife island in the Canary Islands.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/S/SntCrzTnr.html   (196 words)

  
 VI Salón del Cómic de Santa Cruz de Tenerife
De esos años proviene toda una generación de autores isleños que pasó por el Certamen Regional de Comics de Canarias, un concurso organizado por la Dirección General de Juventud y del que salieron artistas como Alberto Hernández, Roberto Burgazzoli, Eduardo González, Juan Carlos Mora o Javier Pulido.
Dentro de las exposiciones y dejando aparte las dedicadas a los autores invitados, otras tres merecen especial mención.
Serradilla complementó estas exposiciones con una serie de conferencias en las que, al igual que en la décima edición, dejó bien patentes sus vastos conocimientos sobre tebeos y sobre cine.
www.tebeosfera.com /Hecho/Festival/Tenerife/XISalonStaCruz.htm   (490 words)

  
 Webcams Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Here you can see the Metbee webcams, which show Santa Cruz de Tenerife city and its sky, so the cameras are intended to be weather webcams.
These pictures are taken from Santa Cruz de Tenerife on the outskirts, at 205m altitude, exactly where the QHA antenna is placed, except the rotator cam.
This webcam is faced towards Santa Cruz from Candelaria town at the South East side of the island.
personales.ya.com /metbee/metbeecam.html   (323 words)

  
 Santa Cruz   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Tenerife, a Spanish island, was a known land-fall and watering base for Spanish ships on their way home to Cadiz.
Santa Cruz, a fortified town and harbour on the island, often acted as a safe haven for the galleons and their escorts on their long journeys from the Caribbean to empty their holds into the treasure chests of Spain.
As always, Nelson planned his attack carefully and he briefed the captains on exactly how they would make a dawn attack by their ship's oared boats upon the unsuspecting sentries patrolling the walls and perimeter of the town and harbour.
www.nelson-society.org.uk /html/body_santa_cruz.htm   (1461 words)

  
 Secret Tenerife: Santa Cruz, Tenerife Embarks on Redesigning the Plaza de España so that it Opens onto the Sea
But, I'm beginning to wonder if Santa Cruz has a season ticket with Herzog and De Mueron and they are involved in enough projects to change the face of the city entirely.
The tunnels will run from the start of the Avenida Anaga (at Alameda del Duque de Santa Elena) to the Cabildo building, where the project also includes a new Plaza del Cabildo in front of the building, the construction of three pavilions, underground parking, traffic and pedestrian arrangements.
The Plaza de La Candelaria (Formerly named Plaza de la Pila then Plaza de la Constitución) will not undergo a radical transformation, they say, though the pavements will be improved and it will be replanted with all palm trees in place of the flamboyanes (Poinciana or Flame Trees).
www.secret-tenerife.com /2006/06/santa-cruz-tenerife-embarks-on.shtml   (972 words)

  
 Tenerife Pictures Santa Cruz Photos
This fountain was the first public service monument of Santa Cruz and it was put in place in 1706.
This was the first parish church in Santa Cruz.
A church was built in the same place in year 1498, only four years after Santa Cruz was founded.
www.dq-tenerife.com /dq-tenerife/travel/city1.pics.asp   (317 words)

  
 Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Santa Cruz on the north eastern coast is the capital of Tenerife.
It is a place that contrasts vividly with an agricultural interior dominated by banana plantations, fruit orchards and vineyards, the austere mountain range sweeping south that includes Spain’s highest peak Mount Teide and the high-rise holiday resorts of the south.
After your marriage ceremony in Santa Cruz de Tenerife at a local church, the cathedral or a local beauty spot your reception could be held at the plush stucco-and-marble Luxury hotel or a local restaurant serving the best in Canary Island cuisine.
www.weddingsinspain.net /destination_wedding_locations/canary_islands/santa_cruz_de_tenerife.html   (329 words)

  
 Santa Cruz de Tenerife (province) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Santa Cruz de Tenerife is a province of Spain, consisting of the western part of the autonomous community of the Canary Islands.
Its capital is the city of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, on the island of Tenerife.
Santa Cruz de Tenerife · Segovia · Seville · Soria · Tarragona · Teruel · Toledo · Valencia · Valladolid · Biscay · Zamora · Zaragoza
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Santa_Cruz_de_Tenerife_(province)   (271 words)

  
 PACSOA - The Palmetum of
Santa Cruz de Tenerife I
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The Palmetum is the largest green space in the centre of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, capital city of the Western Canary Islands.
On the other hand Santa Cruz needed a new institution devoted to science and culture.
The average annual temperature of Santa Cruz is 21 C (70 F) and the minimum temperature ever recorded on the hill was a blessed 15 C (59 F), which is excellent for the growing of most palms.
www.pacsoa.org.au /places/SantaCruz/default.html   (1268 words)

  
 Hotels in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain - SPAIN-BOOKINGS.com
The Colón Rambla Hotel is located right in the centre of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, two minutes from the Port, ten minutes from Los Rodeos airport and seven minutes from Las Teresitas beach.
The Hotel Rural Victoria is beautifully located between the sea and the mountains in Villa Monumental de La Orotava.
Located in the residential area of "La Paz" in Puerto de la Cruz, this comfortable hotel offers its guests a select and pleasant atmosphere, combining perfectly the calm and the amusement.
hotels.spain-bookings.com /city/es/santa-cruz-de-tenerife.html?label=gg-Spain-Santa-Cruz-De-Tenerife-Hotel   (400 words)

  
 Noonsite: Santa Cruz de Tenerife   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Marina Santa Cruz is entered via the southern entrance into Muelle de Los Llanos, which is the southernmost basin facing Tenerife's capital.
Marina Tenerife is in the former fishing harbour (Darsena Pesquera).
Marina Santa Cruz is located right in the centre of the city and is protected by a detached mole separating the marina from the rest of the commercial basin.
noonsite.com /Countries/CanaryIslands/SantaCruzdeTenerife/?...   (494 words)

  
 Santa Cruz - Tenerife
Santa Cruz is both the administrative centre of the western Canary Islands and the capital of Tenerife.
Located on the northeast cost it is a bustling city and shipping port (one of the busiest in Spain and deepest in the world).
Shopping is excellent and most visitors begin at the Plaza de España on the seafront and work their way up Plaza de Candelaria, which offers excellent international brands at 'tax free' prices.
www.canaries-live.com /UK/santa-cruz.html   (153 words)

  
 Santa Cruz de Tenerife Journal: Santa Cruz de Tenerife   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Santa Cruz is the capital of Tenerife with some 260,000 inhabitants.
The city is often visited by mountaineers, because one has to visit the Teide office to get the permit to walk to the summit of Teide.
The Plaza de España (pictured above) is easy to find in the centre of the city and from here most attractions are within walking distance.
realtravel.com /santa_cruz_de_tenerife-trips-i1242189.html   (230 words)

  
 Santa Cruz City Council Minutes
Gottehrer stated that the relationship was begun in an effort to stimulate tourism between the two cities, that the Sister Cities Committee felt that six Sister Cities was a more manageable number, and that Santa Cruz de Tenerife had established a relationship with another U.S. City.
Mark Dorfman, Santa Cruz Metropolitan Transit District, stated that all the parties had discussed the new rate structure and that they were amenable to the new contract, which would separate paratransit cost increases to agencies such as the Transit District and Life Line.
Councilmember Hernandez recognized one of the Santa Cruz Transportation Inc. cab drivers and asked him if the drivers had gotten a raise when the fares were last increased in 1996.
www.ci.santa-cruz.ca.us /cc/archives/00/6-13m.html   (4005 words)

  
 Santa Cruz - Tenerife
The capital of Tenerife since 1723, Santa Cruz is home to around 30% of the island population, around 210,000 people.
I love Tenerife and enjoyed all the towns I went to otherwise so it's not a general Tenerife thing, just Santa Cruz isn't my idea of a holiday.
Whilst there's no beach in the city (town?) itself, a few kilometers away there is the mile-long, man-made, golden sands of Playa de Las Teresitas which is popular with holidaymakers and usually crowded with local residents at weekends and holidays.
www.canaryforum.com /tenerife/santacruz.html   (238 words)

  
 Hotels in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain - SPAIN-BOOKINGS.com
Viera y Clavijo 49, Santa Cruz De Tenerife
Tres de Mayo esq./ Aurea Díaz Flores, Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Dr. José Naveiras, 38, Santa Cruz de Tenerife
hotels.spain-bookings.com /city/es/santa-cruz-de-tenerife.html?...   (400 words)

  
 HOTELES Santa Cruz De Tenerife ( Tenerife ) ofertas, Listado de HOTELES Santa Cruz De Tenerife ( Tenerife ) con ofertas ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Este hotel, construido en el año 1991, tiene un edificio de 7 plantas con un total de 38 habitaciones doles y 1 suite.
Este hotel, construido en 1965 y renovado en el 2003, cuenta con un edificio de siete plantas y con un total de 17 habitaciones individuales y 49 dobl...
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 Sheraton Santa Cruz De Tenerife Hotels: Sheraton Mencey Hotel, Santa Cruz de Tenerife - Hotel Rooms at sheraton.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
Sheraton Mencey Hotel, Santa Cruz de Tenerife is located in a quiet residential area, not far from the center of the old city.
Its beautiful setting allows for total relaxation, yet is convenient to the bustling commercial hub of the Canary Islands.
A tradition of great service ensures that your stay will be enjoyable and memorable at the Sheraton Mencey Hotel, Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
www.starwoodhotels.com /sheraton/search/hotel_detail.html?propertyID=87   (303 words)

  
 BBC - Weather Centre - 5 Day Forecast in Celsius for Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
BBC - Weather Centre - 5 Day Forecast in Celsius for Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
Set Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain to be my hometown
The weather symbol shown for each day in the five day forecast represents the predominant weather expected on the day in question.
www.bbc.co.uk /weather/5day.shtml?world=1509   (183 words)

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