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A championship boxing match will be held in the Recinto Ferial in Santa Cruz on Sunday, 31 March. The event is a national bantamweight championship bout between Tenerife’s Caco Barreto and Nano Santana from Gran Canaria. Three other professional and ten amateur bouts will take place in the evening. Tickets are available from enfusiontenerife.com and eventbrite.
Source Janet Anscombe: https://www.janetanscombe.com/news/national-bantamweight-title-fight-in-santa-cruz-31-march.html
Loro Parque rescues and recuperates loggerhead turtle with spinal injuries caused by boat propeller collision
Photo: Loro Parque. Loro Parque has released the following lovely video of Federica the loggerhead turtle who suffered spinal injuries from a ship’s propeller off the Italian coast earlier this year. The Parque says that Federica is now fully adapted to her new home...
The Amigos de Gillian Banks charity puts on The Chicago Experience to raise funds for underprivileged children
The Amigos de Gillian Banks is a registered association which raises funds for underprivileged children. The asociación is fully legal and what we would understand as a charity in the proper sense of the word (see HERE), and helps these children with vocational and...
Last day for special price registration for runners in the Santa Cruz marathon 2019
Updated 31 August: Organizers have reminded prospective participants in the Santa Cruz marathon on 10 November that today is the final day for registration at the special prices. Runners will still be able to register after today but the price will increase. Just...
Help the Adeje volunteer bomberos in their latest fundraiser
Since the terrible fires in Gran Canaria, many people have been asking how they can help support the bomberos. The fire brigades in each island are part of an official association – the Consorcio – and in Tenerife that comprises the five professional and the nine...
Mary Poppins musical Supercalifragilistic in Los Cristianos next month
The Mary Poppins musical Supercalifragilistic will be in Los Cristianos next month. The musical, in Spanish, will be performed in the Infanta Leonor Auditorium on Friday 20 September at 6pm. Tickets costing €12 are now available from TomaTicket HERE. Source;...
Thursday 15 August is a public holiday
Just a reminder that this Thursday, 15 August, is a public holiday for Asunción (Assumption of the Virgin Mary into Heaven), the fiestas patronales for the whole island, and the focal point of the celebrations is the veneration of the Virgin in Candelaria itself – see...
Alcalá’s famous fireworks for fiestas patronales on 15 August
Apart from being the patron saint of Tenerife and of the town of Candelaria itself, the Virgen de Candelaria is also the patron saint of Alcalá on the west coast, and every August, not only is there a major fiesta actually in Candelaria (see HERE), but there is also a...
Los Corazones de Tejina
Photo: Turismo Tenerife. In a similar vein to the Los Realejos fireworks in May, another Tenerife town has a competition between streets. During this month, three huge hearts – each one 12 metres tall and not far off the weight of a small car – will be the centrepiece...
Las Galletas’ celebrates San Casiano fiesta
Las Galletas is shortly to start its fiesta in honour of San Casiano, the town’s second major fiesta of each year in addition to its Virgen del Carmen celebrations in July. The August fiesta will again see the town taken over by the festivities, especially the Rambla...
Fiestas Patronales in Candelaria start today, with Guanche re-enactment on 14 August, and public holiday on 15th
Nuestra Señora de Candelaria, La Morenita, the black Virgin Mary, is the patron saint of the Canary Islands with an official public holiday in Tenerife in February since she is also specifially Tenerife’s patron saint. And if La Morenita is associated with anywhere in...
Bavarian week and Oktoberfest in Puerto de la Cruz
The Plaza de Europa will be the focus of Puerto de la Cruz’ annual Oktoberfest on Friday 30 August and Sunday 1 September. The square and its surrounding streets will be full of stalls of beer and food, accompanied by live traditional German music and dancing. It...
Playa San Juan’s Virgen del Carmen fiesta will see fireworks tonight and the embarkation tomorrow morning
Photo: Guía de Isora Ayuntamiento. The always popular Virgen del Carmen fiesta in Playa San Juan will see fireworks tonight around midnight and, tomorrow morning, the Embarkation of the Virgen in the little boats that will sail her around the harbour area and...
