Tenerife Beaches
Jardín Beach:
Nearly one kilometre of the coast in Puerto de la Cruz
has been recently regenerated, from the Castle of San Felipe to
Punta Brava district. For this purpose, they have used 200.000
cubic metres of sand extracted form the surrounding sea beds.
The beach shielded by a half submerged breakwater, consits of
a 17.000 m2 landscape area.
Location: Puerto de la Cruz
Martiánez Pond:
The public complex of Costa Martiánez, pride of Puerto
de la Cruz, is one of the most admired examples of coastal transformation.
A reputable technical team, headed by the well-known artist born
in Lanzarote César Manrique, created this exceptional piece
of work adapted to the traditional Canary architecture and complemendted
it with original sculptures and some vegetable elements from the
autochthonous flora.
Its artificial pond, consisting of 27.000 m3 of sea water, highlights
the rest of the pools, four for adults and three for children
use, all of them show an original layout and beauty.
Location: Puerto de la Cruz
Martiánez Beach:
This beach is located between the cliff that bears this name and
the public complex Costa de Martiánez. Certain sections
of this beach with black sand lays open to the powerful action
of the sea, and is an appropriate scenery to the practice of surf
and sea wall, beside Martiánez pond.
Location: Puerto de la Cruz
Teresitas Beach:
This beach was enlarged and conditioned in 1973, with the addition
of golden sand from the antique Spanish province of Sahara. Nowadays
it is protected by a breakwater.
Some Canary palms and sea grapes have been planted in this wide
beach, 1.5 Km. long.
It is located by the fishing precinct of San Andres, offering
numerous fish and seafood restaurants, 7 kilometres North away
form Santa Cruz.
Location: Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Roque Beach:
Its sand is dark and more abundant during low tide periods; suitable
for practising surf, may become dangerous due to frequent currents
and sudden swells, despite the apparent good condition of the
sea.
There are some open-air cafés and fish restaurants by the
beach.