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Canárias · Spain Capital
In the destination Tenerife.
In the photo: Auditorio de Tenerife
Illustrative images. The pictures in this guide are illustrations based on the real place, not photographs, and may differ from it.
The city
Santa Cruz de Tenerife is the island's capital and shares with Las Palmas the seat of the Canary Islands government. It has the port, the Auditorio de Santiago Calatrava, García Sanabria park and the Museu da Natureza e Arqueologia, with the guanche mummies. Next to it are San Cristóbal de La Laguna, a World Heritage Site, Las Teresitas beach and the Anaga mountains.
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The local experience
The Auditorio de Santiago Calatrava opened in 2003 by the sea, with a curved white roof about 60 meters long that resembles a wave, and is home to the island's symphony orchestra.
Museum in the old civil hospital, dating from 1745, with the volcanic nature of the Canaries, fossils and the collection on the guanches, the island's first inhabitants, including mummies.
Urban park from 1926 in the center of Santa Cruz, with tropical and Canarian plants, fountains, a flower clock and sculptures from an open‑air international exhibition of 1973.
About a 1.3 km beach in San Andrés, 8 km from Santa Cruz, with light sand brought from the Sahara, a breakwater that calms the water and the Anaga mountains behind.
Mountain massif in the northeast of the island, a Biosphere Reserve, with laurel forest (laurisilva) draped in moss, trails, viewpoints and isolated villages like Taganana.
Former capital of Tenerife, 10 km from Santa Cruz, with a late‑15th‑century centre laid out on a grid plan — a model for colonial cities in the Americas. UNESCO World Heritage.
Herzog & de Meuron art center from 2008, on the edge of the Barranco de Santos, with contemporary art exhibitions, the Óscar Domínguez collection, and a library open 24 hours part of the year.
Santa Cruz’s main church, dating from the 16th century and rebuilt in the 17th, with a five‑storey tower and the Cross of the Conquest, raised by the Castilians in 1494.
