Hotels in Tenerife

Hotels in Tenerife

Hotels in the island of Tenerfie are often required by tourists who need accommodation in the island of Tenerife. Some may want to visit the island to see the great scenery, the coast, the beaches, the landscapes, the cities, the towns, the villages and the resorts of the island. Some may want to see the culture, the sports, the entertainment, the historic areas and the landmarks of the island. Some may prefer to use the island as base to explore the region.

Tenerife (previously known and spelled as Teneriffe in English, before mass tourism adopted the Spanish spelling), a Spanish island, is the largest of the seven Canary Islands in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Africa. .

Santa Cruz de Tenerife is the second biggest city in the archipelago, the capital of the island and the head of the island government (cabildo insular). It is also officially co-capital of the autonomous community of the Canary Islands together with Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, with whom it shares governmental institutions such as Presidency, Parliament and ministries.

Tenerife, as is with the other islands, has maintained a close relationship with South America.

The island is located between the 28º and 29º N parallel and the 16º and 17º meridian. It is situated slightly to the north of the Tropic of Cancer, occupying a central position between the other Canary Islands of Gran Canaria, La Gomera and La Palma. The island is located a little more than 300 km from the African continent, and approximately 1,000 km from the Iberian Peninsula. Tenerife is the largest island of the Canary Islands archipelago, with a surface area of 2,034.38 km2 and the longest coastline amounting to 342 km.

The island is home to La Laguna University, which was founded in 1792.

The island of Tenerife is served by Tenerife North - Los Rodeos Airport and Reina Sofía Airport.

There are a diversity of names that distinct cultures have attributed to Tenerife in its long history. For example the first inhabitans on the island, the guanches, referred to the island as Achinet or Chenet, although based on the bibliography that is consulted, the names can acquire different orthographic variations. According to Pliny the Younger, Roman Emperor Juba II sent an expedition to the Canary Islands and Madeira and had had given the Canary Islands its name because he found particularly ferocious dogs (canaria) on the island. Juba II and Ancient Romans referred to Tenerife as Nivaria, deriving from the Latin words nix, nivis, nieve), meaning snow, in clear reference to the snow that is present on the highest point of the island, the Teide volcano. On the other hand, maps dating to the 14th and 15th century, from authors like Bontier and Le Verrier refer to the island as Isla del Infierno, literally meaning Island of Hell, a reference to the rate of of volcanic activity and eruptions of Mt Teide in its history. Finally, Teide is also responsible for the name of the island widely used today, named by the benehaorits (natives of La Palma) derived from the words Tene (mountain) and ife (white). Later, after colonisation, the hispanisation of the name resulted in the adding of a letter "r" uniting both words to obtain the name Tenerife as a result.

Tenerife at the time of its conquest by Spain 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.

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