Inevitably, Santa Cruz’s nightlife is at its best during Carnival , which can make the other fifty weeks of the year seem like one long anticlimax. But, by normal standards the capital has a good range of bars and clubs (supplemented by a number of huge outdoor venues nearby in the summer) and a respected [...]
Bars and cafés spill onto the plazas and pedestrian streets of central Santa Cruz. While the obvious choices for a quick coffee or snack are around the Plaza Candelaria, most of the cafés here are nothing special and a bit overpriced. A couple of minutes inland you’ll find more interesting and better value places favoured [...]
Home to the archipelago’s biggest container shipping port and a number of oil refineries, SANTA CRUZ is no aesthete’s delight, but its uniquely Canarian urban vibrance is hard to find elsewhere on the island. From the time of the landing of the first conquistadors, Santa Cruz became the island’s main port and, as Tenerife became [...]
The bus station is south of the centre, around ten-minutes’ walk from the seafront Plaza de España; buses arrive here from almost every corner of the island (with the exception of Parque Nacional del Teide and the west coast). Those arriving by car will do best to head here, too (follow signs for the Avda [...]