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Short history of Tenerife
The age Canarias in this Tenerife also values approximately 30 million years - it is then so that the islands youth's comparativety. The oldest inhabitants in called islands Guanches with spreading of animals, with cultivating of the ground and with hunts. Tall people were, very well-made, probably had the long slight hair and brilliantly blue eyes.
The most popular theory proclaims that higher mountain tops in islands is mysterious rest, in demand by many lost Atlantide finders.
Still before the arrival of Spanish colonizadores in Tenerife islands it was divided in nine regional kingdoms of which the names are used to present moment Abona, Adeje, Anaga, Daute, Icod, Guimar, Tacoronte, Taoro and Tegueste.
After conquest of islands by Spanish colonizadores in 1402 r the reputation of Tenerife had established already as very important commercial center thanks own intercontinental position. The islands also were visited often by tenderos of slaves, who bought Guanches.
In course approximately 100 of years original language of Guanches disappeared completely, and the native inhabitants mixed with invaders in marriages, accepted Christianity and adopted Spanish names.
To 1723 year capital of Tenerife was the Lagoon founded by Alonso Fernandez de Lugo, located islands in deepest, having good agricultural conditionses as it remained in safe distances of pirates who make the rounds in this region.
In 1821 year Santa Cruz de Tenerife made province Spanish and officially it published with the capital. So also begun new phase in island history. Under management of Spain the island was transformed into one of greatest of the connections that connected Europe, Africa and America. Became also pleases very often visited by rummaging on nearby waters of pirates wanting to nip off just to little from newly found wealths.
In beginning of 60 years general Franco it decided to create paradise of the islands for the tourists and is necessary to admit that fact to reach many. Slowly in islands begun to come tourist more and more, in peculiarities while rich Britishers.
In that time the tourism was concentrated mainly on northern parts of the island in area between Puerto de la Cruz and with capital Santa Cruz. Both these cities were then proud many of splendid hotels with most popular Hotel Taoro in Puerto de la Cruz.
Tenerife was already then very famous of considers in own delicate climate,difference of temperatures between warmer and cold month is approximately 6 of degrees C.
Tenerife is divided by mountain range in two climatic zones - fresher North and very hot south, where almost never rains, and the temperature by all the year is literally near 25 of the degrees C.
Anything strange that with each moment quantity the tourists who come here grew in fast time. In the majority they were the tourists from Europe that came here holidays as well as in weekends and free days.
With course of the time the tourists slowly began to revise south islands, which caused to fast development this part of island. Los Christianos of very small fishing villages was transformed into gigantic tourist health-resource that pressed the life, and Las Americas transformed of aseptic, dried the ground in the biggest tourist center in this region
Today in Las America is bigger concentration of the hotels and of the tourist centers, that are visited every year for near 10 million tourists from all the world.
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