Living culture in Tenerife connects festivities, oral memory, food, trades and community practices shaped by the island's geography.
Tenerife keeps traditions that cannot be explained only as festive events: they depend on trades, paths, speech, food and community memory.
Among its main reference points are Teide and sacred landscape, Historic La Laguna, Port and mobility, which connect landscape, memory and everyday life. Living culture shows how the island turns its past into recognisable practices within contemporary society.
Key points
Carnaval de Santa Cruz
Uno de los carnavales mas grandes del mundo, con una historia que mezcla tradicion popular, resistencia cultural durante el franquismo y renovacion contemporanea.
Romerias de La Orotava y La Laguna
Las romerias, con carros engalanados y trajes tipicos, expresan la cultura campesina y religiosa de las medianias, todavia muy vivas en municipios del norte.
Devocion a la Virgen de Candelaria
La patrona de Canarias convierte Candelaria en centro de peregrinacion colectiva, con una devocion que mezcla origenes guanches y catolicismo colonial.
Gastronomia de medianias
El gofio, el potaje de berros, el rancho canario y los quesos de las medianias forman parte de una cocina que refleja agricultura de subsistencia y aprovechamiento local.
Lucha canaria y juegos tradicionales
La lucha canaria es el deporte emblematico de la isla, junto a otros juegos como el juego del palo, ambos con raices en la cultura indigena y vida campesina.
Municipalities of Tenerife
See all →- AdejeAdeje is a municipality of Tenerife, presented through settlement, landscape, local memory and its links with the rest of the island.
- ArafoArafo is a municipality of Tenerife, presented through settlement, landscape, local memory and its links with the rest of the island.
- AricoArico is a municipality of Tenerife, presented through settlement, landscape, local memory and its links with the rest of the island.
- AronaArona is a municipality of Tenerife, presented through settlement, landscape, local memory and its links with the rest of the island.
- Buenavista del NorteBuenavista del Norte is a municipality of Tenerife, presented through settlement, landscape, local memory and its links with the rest of the island.
- CandelariaCandelaria is a municipality of Tenerife, presented through settlement, landscape, local memory and its links with the rest of the island.