The Atlantic, unhurried
Edition · Tenerife
Teide above the clouds, the laurel forest of Anaga and a city, La Laguna, under UNESCO protection.
Photo: H. Zell · Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 · cropped
From Teide National Park to the trails of Anaga and the streets of La Laguna: Tenerife away from the noise, with judgement and without hurry.
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In the island's north-east, half an hour from Santa Cruz, the road plunges into a damp laurel forest and drops to hamlets and black-sand beaches. What Anaga is, how to explore it respectfully and where the road ends.
Read the storyThe essentials
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From the Real Club de Golf de Tenerife, founded in 1932 in the north, to Severiano Ballesteros's course above the Atlantic and the layouts of the south. Which course to choose depending on where you stay, and why golf here is a winter game.
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Tenerife's south gathers the great hotels with gardens and chef-led restaurants; the north keeps the other version: houses with history and the return of the Gran Hotel Taoro. Where quiet luxury sleeps on the island, and how to choose.
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Winter tourism in the Canaries began here: Britons escaping the cold and tuberculosis, a botanical garden born of an order from Charles III and a grand hotel on the hill. A walk through the Puerto that still keeps the air of an Atlantic spa town.
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Night on Teide is a quiet luxury, and one protected by law. What makes this sky special, how to see it well (moon, warm clothes, a guide) and why the island offers it all year round.
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No sunloungers, no hotels behind and no beach bar: La Tejita below Montaña Roja in the south, and the black beaches of Anaga in the north. Volcanic sand, wind and space — the Atlantic version of calm.
Sections
Different ways of looking at this destination, all with judgement.
Mount Teide, the cloud forest of Anaga and the rock pools for swimming when the sea won't allow it.
View allPapas arrugadas with mojo, genuine guachinches and wines from five appellations on a single island.
View allLifestyle, property and interiors. North or south, and an island that never closes for winter.
View allLa Laguna, the blueprint for cities in the Americas; Garachico and the earth carpets of La Orotava.
View allTwo airports, buses and a tram, and the permit to climb to the summit of Teide.
View allThe welcome guide
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The welcome guide
Leave us your email and we'll send you the guide: the six beaches everyone wants to see, with how to get there and the hour at which they stop being full. After that, the occasional calm letter — only when it's genuinely worth it.
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