The quintessential mansion of traditional Canarian architecture, Casa Méndez-Fonseca de la Orotava, better known as “Casa de los Balcones” or House of the Balconies, is unquestionably the highest expression of traditional Canarian urban architecture on the island of Tenerife. Built between 1632 and 1675, on Calle San Francisco in the urban area of the town of Orotava, surrounded by illustrious ancestral homes, all of them bearing storied coats of arms of nobles in marble or basalt, the Casa de Méndez-Fonseca, for its incomparable courtyard and its excellent façade, shines as only she knows and can.
In the 1850s, the Canarian businessman Mr. Antonio Díaz-Flores y Cartaya built a spectacular large mansion that could be stylistically framed in romantic classicism.
The village of Las Vegas, in the municipality of Granadilla de Abona, in the highlands of Chimiche, in the south of the island of Tenerife, is a unique and surprising place, because after leaving the Chimiche drylands as the road ascends, the landscape turns green due to the confluence of Canarian pines and the sensation of entering a different microclimate, somewhat more humid but still dry; to which is added a verifiable change in the morphology of the geological elements, in the earth and in the rocks, which present a darker tone, as if moving from a desert area to a mountain area.
Leaving from the Alegría quarter in Santa de Tenerife, capital of the island, at the height of the sea, we propose to climb, in four hours walk, the more than twelve kilometers and almost a thousand meters of unevenness that separate that point from the so-called Cruz del Carmen, famous and visited peak of the Anaga massif.
One of the most classic and recommended excursions within the island of Tenerife is the visit to the Millennial Dragon Tree of Icod de los Vinos, a natural monument of Spain since 1917, a marvel of nature with unfathomable beauty and mysterious appearance, as from another era, from another temporal dimension, from another world.
In 1928 construction began on what, from 1975 on, have been the facilities of the Liceo Taoro, the most traditional and deep-rooted social club in the Orotava Valley, an institution founded in 1855 under the name of Falansterio de Taoro (The Taoro phalanstery).
OurTenerife | July 15, 2023 
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