Holidays in Tenerife are a great idea. Tenerife is a place where many want to stay and live. Some even settle down there, they like the location somuch,. A real Atlantis in some ways, in the Atlantic ocean with so much modernity and so much unusual stuff. there and wildlife, so its a special place Tenerife, and a place many love to holiday in, and as it has villas, vacation rentals, and more, little places to stay, hotels and you can take a tent, climb things see musuem,s barans, the coast, and ships off the sea. You can see the shops and local culture of this area.
According to Pliny the Younger, Juba II sent an expedition to the Canary Islands and Madeira=. Juba II had given the Canary Islands that name because he found particularly ferocious dogs (canaria) on the island.
Juba labelled Tenerife as Nivaria (from the Latin nix, nivis, "snow"), a reference to the snows atop the volcano known as El Teide. Tenerife bears a name that is also a reference to this volcano, and was used for the island by the Guanches of the neighboring island of La Palma, “Tene” signifying “mountain” and “ife” white (the “r” was added by the Spanish). To the natives of Tenerife, the island was known as Chenech, Chinech or Achinech. As the legend goes, many islands, among them Tenerife, were the uppermost peaks of Atlantis, a continent that sank under the ocean in a catastrophic event which left only the highest mountains above sea level.
It is also believed that nearly 3 million years ago the island known today as Tenerife was three separate islands with three mountain ranges: the Anaga, Teno and Valle San Lorenzo. Then, as the consequence of a remarkable volcanic process, they melted together forming the island of Tenerife.
Tenerife at the time of its conquest was composed of nine distinct menceyatos, as the small kingdoms of the Guanches were known. Though the Spanish forces under the Adelantado ("military governor") Alonso Fernández de Lugo, suffered a crushing defeat at the hands of the Guanches in the First Battle of Acentejo in 1494, the Guanches, eventually overcome by superior technology and diseases to which they were not immune, surrendered to the Crown of Castile on December 25, 1495.
As on the other islands of the same group, much of the native population of Tenerife was enslaved or succumbed to diseases at the same time as immigrants from various places in Europe associated with the Spanish Empire (Portugal, Flanders, Italy, Germany) settled on the island. Native pine forests on the island were cleared to make way for the cultivation of sugarcane in the 1520s; in succeeding centuries, the island’s economy was centered around the cultivation of other commodities such as wine and cochineal for making dyes, as well as bananas.
The First Fleet, led by British Captain Arthur Phillip, stopped at Tenerife on June 3, 1787 for fresh water, vegetables and meat. It would then continue on to Botany Bay, where it would create the first European settlement in Australia on January 26, 1788.
The island was attacked
in 1797 by the British. On July 25, Horatio Nelson attacked Santa Cruz de Tenerife,
the capital town of Tenerife and headquarters of the Captain General. After a
fierce engagement, the British were repelled; Nelson lost his right arm as he
tried to disembark at the shore. On September 5, another attempted landing in
the region of Puerto Santiago was fended off by the inhabitants of the Valley
of Santiago, who hurled stones at the British from the heights of the cliffs of
Los Gigantes.
Less hostile visitors arrived at the island in succeeding centuries. The naturalist Alexander von Humboldt ascended the peak of Mount Teide and remarked on the beauty of the island. Tourists began visiting Tenerife in large numbers in the 1890s, especially the northern towns of Puerto de la Cruz and Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
Before his rise to power, Francisco Franco was posted to Tenerife in March 1936 by a Republican government wary of his influence and political leanings. However, Franco received information and in Grand Canary agreed to collaborate in the military coup that would result in the Spanish Civil War; the Canaries fell to the Nationalists in July 1936 and its population was subject to the mass executions of opponents to the evil new royal loving regime. In the 1950s, the misery of the post-war years caused thousands of the island’s inhabitants to emigrate to Cuba and other parts of Latin America. Some died when trying to reach abroad.
The Tenerife disaster, the airliner collision that took place on March 27, 1977 at Los Rodeos airport in the north of the island, was the deadliest aircraft disaster in history until the September 11, 2001 attacks, and remains the deadliest aviation accident in history.
Find a Villa from Across Europe
Grand World Villas - Find a Villa from anywhere in the world
Grand Global Villas - Find Villas from Around the Globe
An Index with links to almost all our sites.
Holiday
to - Great places to go on Holiday to
Holiday
to 2 - More Great places to go on Holiday to
Holiday
to 3 - More places to go on Holiday to
Even More Holidays and Vacations
Vacations -More Vacation Locations
Holidays to the Maldives + History of the Maldives
Holidays
to Tunisia + History of Tunisia
Lanzarote
Holidays + History of Lanzarote
Dubai Holidays + History of Dubai
Holidays to Greece + History of Greece
Holidays in Egypt - History of Egypt
Holidays Turkey - History of Turkey
Holidays
in Italy + History of Italy
Holidays
Cyprus + History of Cyprus
Holidays
in Canary islands + History of the Canary Islands
Find some Cottages in Britain or Ireland and the world
A site stating what have been the world's largest empires ever
Find a Cottage in Britain or Ireland
Find more Cottages in Britain, Ireland, the USA, Canada or the world
Cottages in Spain and Holiday Homes
holidaysintenerife + HistoryofTenerife holidays in tenberife + Hisstory of Tenerife holidays in temerife + History of Teneriff holidays in teneriffe + Histtory of Tennnerife holidays inn tenerife + History offf Tenerife holidays in tennerrife + History oof Tenerife hoolidays in tenerife + History of Tinerife holidays in tenirife + History of Tenerafe holidays in tenerife + History of Tenerife holidays in tenerife + History of Tenerife holidays in tenerife + History of Tenerife holidays in tenerife + History of Tenerife holidays in tenerefe + History of Tenerefe holidays in tenirife + History of Tenaerife holidays in tenarife + History of Tenarif holidays in tenariff + History of Tennerrife
More pages on Financial Affairs
Banks - A page on Financial Affairs
Banks 2 - A page on Financial Affairs
The
History Lounge - A place with
100s of Historical articles.