Canary Islands

Photographic Gallery
Private websites
This website provides a number of photographic albums which are sorted by the seven largest islands, namely La Palma, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote, La Gomera, Fuerteventura, El Hierro and Tenerife. By selecting a specific island, one is presented with a[more...] 27.09.2006 13:18

Audacious Auditorium
MALU about Auditorio de Tenerife
When we stayed in Puerto de la Cruz on Tenerife in December last year, I went on a coach tour to the north east of the island including the capital Santa Cruz. Our first stop was the auditorium in Santa Cruz (built from 2000 to 2003) at the southern end of the harbour area, designed by the Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, who is famous for combining architecture, engineering, and sculpture, (from the net) "he has produced an astonishingly photogenic opera house. Above its main space a 1,600-seat auditorium in the shape of a tilted cone a wing-like canopy rises[...]