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Tenerife 4

Now, I might have gotten my references mixed up, but this one should be a statue erected at the time of Franco’s regime. 

Francisco Franco was a dictator who ruled Spain for four decades and saw a victory in the Spanish Civil War of 1936. (in no small part thanks to the aid from Hitler, who used the war to train his Luftwaffe pilots, and Mussolini who, well, wanted some glory)

The civil war being a bloody affair, it is no wonder that nations don’t like to talk about it. Therefore, we will skip that story, the only point here is that it was from Tenerife that Franco planned his coup. 

There’s a general disagreement on what to do with pieces of art originating in that time (there’s a law passed in 2007. condemning the regime, and art historians are somewhat divided on what to do with the works of art); I’m no art historian or art expert, I’m not a Spaniard and can’t say a thing about all of this, yet I somehow feel that art, no matter the context, should be preserved – not for the politics, but for the history. 

Visits: 122

Tenerife 3

What strikes me here is the mild climate creating a perpetual spring. The winter months are relatively warm, with night temperatures rarely going below a two-digit number and the summer months are hot, but there’s the ocean breeze that makes the life more than bearable. Walking this street in Santa Cruz de Tenerife I felt the calmness of a community that knows how to work and how to enjoy life. 

Visits: 119

Tenerife 2

The volcanic nature of Tenerife is easy to recognise: human settlements are either hugging the coast or lean against the steep slopes. Mount Teide, with its peak Pico del Teide at a remarkable height of 3718m above sea level dominates the island. It is an active volcano, yet it hasn’t even coughed for more than hundred years now. What we see on this picture, though, is not the volcano: the capital city Santa Cruz de Tenerife is safely away from the volcano.  Notice how the buildings are cramped together near the shore, avoiding the steep slopes but partially embracing them.  

Visits: 142

Tenerife

Since Google announced eventual shutting down of G+ where I’ve spent years with my travel blog, I’ve exiled myself to this place. I am going to post in parallel to both G+ and this travel blog for as long as the service exists (should be a couple more weeks, I guess). I do hope that some of my >38.000 followers on G+ will bookmark this site and continue enjoying the photos. 

For those who are new, I will post both simple photos without a comment and those with elaborate if not lengthy descriptions, fun facts or some trivia related to the picture. 

I will try to keep my good tradition of making people vote for the next destination; I find it interesting and my readers like it, too. Yet, to start the transition I am not offering any choice but the small collection of pics from Tenerife, a series that has been waiting in queue for quite some time. 

For those who did not follow my G+ posts, I will collect and re-post all of them here eventually. 

Also, I am thinking about trying out Patreon in a sensible way: some of my future posts might be visible to my patrons first, but I do promise that all travel content will be available to non-patrons after some time delay. 

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