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Teide National Park
The Canary Islands and Tenerife’s most visible landmark, Mt Teide, have been a point of reference for those who sailed between the Straight and the Atlantic coast since antiquity. On a world-wide level, the park is one of the island’s few volcanic areas featuring ecosystem zones above the timberline, giving rise to unique ecosystems such as the alpine broom, and alpine ecosystems.
The use of plant species, water and snow as well as the extraction of minerals for diverse purposes marked a period of exploitation of the area’s natural resources which came to an end when the area was declared a National Park in 1954, via a regulation governing the use of protected natural areas, and particularly, the Law on Reclassification of 1981 and the Use and Management Master Plan of 1984. (περισσότερα…)
La Laguna, Tenerife
San Cristóbal de La Laguna has an exceptional, universal value due to the concept of its town plan. This historical site is the archetype of city-territory. It is the first example of a non-fortified town, conceived and built according to a plan inspired by navigation, the science of the time. Its layout is based on peaceful new social order, inspired by the religious doctrine of the millennium of the year 1500.
The town map can actually be read as a “stellar map” in which the dots indicate particular points in the city and the links between these points and the town as a whole. It has a symbolic meaning and should be interpreted as a marine map or a map of the constellations of the time. The characteristics of the city of La Laguna, the archipelago’s first capital city, set the tone for the new cities in America. The city is home to approximately six hundred well-preserved original Mudejar buildings and is a living example of the exchange between European and American culture, a culture the city has maintained strong ties with over the centuries.
All of this led the World Heritage Committee of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO), to announce, on the 2nd of December 1999, in Marrakech (Morocco), its approval of San Cristóbal de La Laguna in Tenerife as a World Heritage City.
History of Tenerife, Canary Islands
The Canary Islands have always been present in myth and legend, like those mythical lands beyond the Pillars of Hercules in the Strait of Gibraltar, the gateway to the Mare Tenebrosum. Classical writers have placed Paradise, the Elysian Fields and the Garden of the Hesperides here, although one of the first reliable accounts of the islands we owe to Pliny the Elder, in the 1st century AD.
When the Spanish conquistadors arrived in Tenerife, the island was divided into nine small kingdoms, or menceyatos: Taoro, Abona, Güímar, Anaga, Tegueste, Tacoronte, Icod, Daute and Adeje, with a king, or mencey, in charge of each, advised by his council of elders, or tagoror. The Guanches, the pre-colonial inhabitants of Tenerife, wore animal skins and, as far as the documented evidence goes, had not dominated the art of navigation. However, they did have elaborate burial rites for their dead, with mummification techniques that proved very effective in some cases. (περισσότερα…)
Hamogelo / The smile of the child
Andreas
Andreas was born on the 21st of April 1985 in a family with strong bonds. As a child, he was very sensitive, and used his “small” power to offer love and smiles to everyone who was near him!
Evzone Featured in Iconic Photo in Historic LIFE Magazine 79 Years Ago
Source Greek Reporter
It was mid-December 1940, approximately fifty days after the outbreak of the Greco-Italian war, when the American magazine ”LIFE” featured a Greek Evzone on its cover.At that time, ”LIFE” magazine was the leading American publication in photojournalism. At a time when photographs were relatively rare in newspapers and magazines, the team at ”LIFE” managed to create this major new innovation of making photographs the center of a story, rather than the text behind them. (περισσότερα…)
