Program Activity 1: Santa Cruz de Tenerife

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1 Program Activity 1: Santa Cruz de Tenerife Santa Cruz de Tenerife is a global city (with Sufficiency status) and capital (jointly with Las Palmas) of the Canary Islands, the capital of Province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, and of the island of Tenerife. Santa Cruz has a population of 206,593 (2013) within its administrative limits. Santa Cruz is located in northeast quadrant of Tenerife, about 210 kilometres (130 mi) off the northwestern coast of Africa within the Atlantic Ocean. The distance to the nearest point of mainland Spain is about 1,300 kilometres (810 mi). Between the 1833 territorial division of Spain and 1927 Santa Cruz de Tenerife was the sole capital of the Canary Islands, until 1927 when a decree ordered that the capital of the Canary Islands be shared, as it remains at present. The port is of great importance and is the communications hub between Europe, Africa and Americas, with cruise ships arriving from many nations. The city is the focus for domestic and inter-island communications in the Canary Islands. The main landmarks of the city include the Auditorio de Tenerife (Auditorium of Tenerife), the Santa Cruz Towers (Torres de Santa Cruz) and the Iglesia de la Concepción. Santa Cruz de Tenerife hosts the first headquarters of the Center UNESCO in the Canary Islands. In recent years the city of Santa Cruz de Tenerife has seen the construction of a significant number of modern structures and the city's skyline is the sixth in height across the country, only behind Madrid, Benidorm, Barcelona, Valencia and Bilbao. Activity 2: San Cristóbal de La Laguna

2 San Cristóbal de La Laguna (commonly known as La Laguna is a city and municipality in the northern part of the island of Tenerife in the Province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, on the Canary Islands (Spain). The city is the third-most populous city of the archipelago and the second-most populous city of the island. La Laguna's historical center was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in In 2003 the municipality started an ambitious Urban Plan to renew this area, that was carried out by the firm AUC S.L. (Arquitectura Urbanismo y Cooperación). The city was the ancient capital of the Canary Islands. La Laguna lies right alongside the city of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, thus the two cities and municipalities form a single large urban center, linked by tram. Activity 3: Playa de las Teresitas Activity 4: Parque Marítimo

3 Activity 5: Museo de la Sciencia y el Cosmo The Museum of Science and the Cosmos is not a traditional museum. It belongs to a generation of science museums whose objective is not simply to show scientific and technical achievements of an era or a place, nor to demonstrate them by adding a pedagogical and cultural will to the conservation and presentation of that heritage. The aim of these museums is to communicate science, using all available means, especially interactivity and experimentation in multidisciplinary environments that enhance the playful aspects of perception and analysis of reality, with real objects but also with multimedia tools. The physicist Frank Oppenheimer created in 1969 the first Science Center with these characteristics - the San Francisco Exploratorium - placing emphasis not on a collection of objects, but on the questions generated by scientific evolution. Following this model, the Museum of Science and the Cosmos tries to exhibit the science that refines the senses and develops the imagination. Activity 6: Museo del la naturaleza y el hombre

4 The Museum of Nature and Man is located in a prominent building of the insular capital, the Old Civil Hospital of Our Lady of the Desamparados, which dates from the year 1745, and was remodeled at the end of the nineteenth century by architect Manuel of Oraá and Arcocha. Its main façade is considered as one of the most qualified examples of the neoclassical architecture of the islands, for which it was declared an Asset of Cultural Interest, with the category of Monument, in In the surroundings of the Museum are some of the most emblematic spaces and buildings of the city Santa Cruz de Tenerife: the Church of the Conception, center of the founding nucleus of the city, whose first construction dates back to the year 1500; Calle de la Noria, one of the most traditional, lively and most charming promenades in the old urban area and, finally, as an example of modern architecture, on the banks of the Barranco de Santos, and right next to the Museum, the TEA ( Tenerife Space of the Arts). Activity 7: Parque Nacional del Teide Mount Teide is a volcano on Tenerife in the Canary Islands, Spain. Its 3,718-metre (12,198 ft) summit is the highest point in Spain and the highest point above sea level in the islands of the Atlantic. If measured from the ocean floor, it is at 7,500 m (24,600 ft) the highest volcano in the world base-to-peak outside of the Hawaiian Islands, and is described by UNESCO and NASA as Earth's third-tallest volcanic structure. Teide's elevation makes Tenerife the tenth highest island in the world. Teide is an active volcano: its most recent eruption occurred in 1909 from the El Chinyero vent on the northwestern Santiago rift. The United Nations Committee for Disaster Mitigation designated Teide a Decade Volcano because of its history of destructive eruptions and its proximity to several large towns, of which the closest are Garachico, Icod de los Vinos and Puerto de la Cruz. Teide, Pico Viejo and Montaña Blanca form the Central Volcanic Complex of Tenerife. Acticity 8: Candelaria

5 Candelaria, also Villa Mariana de Candelaria, is a municipality and city in the eastern part of the island of Tenerife in the Province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, in the Canary Islands, Spain. The city is located on the coast, 17 km southwest of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. The population is 25,140 (2010), and the area is km².the town is noted by Catholics in Spain and Latin America as a place of veneration of the Virgin of Candelaria, the patron of the Canary Islands. The most prominent building is the Basilica of Candelaria, which includes the sculpture of the Virgin Mary (Virgin of Candelaria) and mural paintings. Also highlighted in the square, statues of the nine aboriginal kings of Tenerife. In the times of the Guanches, the region was part of the menceyato, or kingdom, of Güímar. A cave is situated around Candelaria. The famous Festival de la Canción de Candelaria is one of the most important festivities on the island. It celebrated its 10th anniversary in 2005.