Corte Ingles Tenerife represents best shopping including events and has first class bargain offers as well.
Corte Ingles is the name of a Spanish department store chain and economic empire. There are only 2 main Corte Ingles malls on the island to the best of my knowledge, only. Why? Tenerife belongs to Spain but, has autonomous rights. It's not easy for big malls to receive trading rights on the island.
The address of its biggest mall in Santa Cruz the capital of Tenerife is:
Corte Inglés TenerifeSanta Cruz Tenerife capital Avda.Tres de Mayo, 7 which connects with TF 1 North Free Way also called Carretera del Norte. Fax Tel: + 34 922 294568 Opening hours: 10 a.m.-22 p.m.
This is the newest Corte Inglés of Santa Cruz de Tenerife which was opened in 2005/2006. Scroll down to see direction and address with photo of the old Santa Cruz Corte Inglés... The modern Boutique hotel Silken Atlantida Santa Cruz is your best bet for staying near the best Corte Ingles in the Tenerife capital. Free parking, free Wifi and more surprises...
Where else to park by Corte Inglés in Tenerife capital?
Park your car for free until 10 p.m.(closed on Sundays) opposite Corte Inglés underground at Centro Comercial 3 de Mayo where the well known electronics shop Saturn can be seen facing the back of Corte Inglés with its yard.. You find its entrance turning around the block.
Let your boys bring their skate boards which they may use on Corte Inglés Tenerife Santa Cruz back yard while you shop or browse at its modern mall in peace.
This yard which I call skating court Corte Inglés Santa Cruz had about 20 - 30 youngsters racing around it on their skate boards on October 16th in 2008 a date I prefer to mention just in case Corte Inglés Santa Cruz will put a stop to this Tenerife sport on its outside premises. Taking a photo shot was not possible as lights were not good.
Enjoy Corte Inglés sight seeing, browsing and shopping on week-days except Sundays until 10 p.m.
The sight of the modern Corte Inglés shopping mall illumination at night is spectacular. The picture shows the mall coming from the bottom of Avenida 3 de Mayo. Driving on you reach a traffic circle with turn off for TF5 Northern Free Way direction Puerto Cruz Icod de los Vinos when keeping in the left lane. Walking down the road from Corte Inglés on this subtropical avenue you reach the ocean on foot within 10 minutes.
Corte Ingles Tenerife which sells just about everything you need is known for good quality of clothes, furniture, household appliances, in short, everything for home and often garden, sport gear, toys, games, tools, audio, video and other electronic gadgets. IT articles and office supply are not missing. El Corte Ingles assembles its own computers sold by its house brand and is said to produce some software in collaboration with Microsoft according to a Microsoft press release which I read in 2008.Corte Ingles like all other malls by this name be they in Tenerife or in other provinces of Spain are all elite stores. However, Corte Ingles Tenerife just like the others has special offers for its quality goods. My friend Cesar told me a few weeks ago about an excellent washing machine offer at Corte Ingles at a very reasonable price. Therefor, best Tenerife shopping at low prices is possible at Corte Ingles.
El Corte Ingles Tenerife food and drink department is impressive. Generally, all over Spain including Tenerife it made over 17 million Euros net profit in 2006 in grocery retailing alone as perPlanet Retail Statistics.
Shop for magazines and books:If you cannot find a special book go look for it at Corte Inglés...
It has a substantial literary offer about Tenerife Island for all kinds of activities. Many such books are in English as well. Several years ago, I couldn't find information on the latest property laws. El Corte Ingles Santa Cruz sold books which included them.
Corte Ingles Tenerife also has reading material in its large stocks on latest Receiver of Revenue laws and business questions.
Unfortunately such written information is issued in Spanish, only. All those Corte Ingles books are like study books which means without any elaborate design. The print is small and book covers are very simple.
Shopping offers at the old Corte Ingles in the capital's shopping Center are more limited. The picture shows you the tall narrow building opposite the pretty park church San Francisco by Calle Villalba Hervás corner Calle El Pilar with its big green letters advertising Corte Ingles.The pleasant, clean Principe Paz Hotel Santa Cruz Tenerife is the best place to pick, if you want to shop or have other dealings with the old Corte Ingles Tenerife. Ask for a room, which overlooks the pedestrian area opposite the park... Adjoining within a few steps is Plaza Alférez Provisional with my best Santa Cruz restaurant Restaurante El Aguila on corner Calle Bethencourt Alfonso.
Corte Ingles is a brand name and is for elite shoppers:My Spanish friend Francisco who was a bank manager in Barcelona told me that he would only buy furniture at Corte Ingles Tenerife, since living on the island. Well, the normal man in the street on the biggest of all Canary Islands can, perhaps, not afford that. His daughter a Tenerife lawyer would buy most of her clothes there as she believes in quality ware.
Many a Spanish or Tenerife women makes ends meet to get clothes, cosmetics or designer perfumes at this biggest Spanish department store in Tenerife.
Beautiful girls at Corte Ingles Tenerife:
Of course, at El Corte Ingles you may see the most stunning girls and it's a place for dates which applies to Tenerife, as well.
Some of those dates take place at its renown restaurant.
History Corte Ingles Tenerife is of course linked to that of mainland Spain and Gran Canaria.
Our friend Richard whom I had introduced in the property hunt of 1997 met his Canary wife there, for the first time.
Just figure, for how long the world's 30th most prominent department store in Spain might have been around... Indeed, El Corte Ingles came into being in 1952 in mainland Spain except for its name which is older than its history and once stood for a tailor shop which produced high quality mens' suits with an English cut meaning corte ingles.
In fact, El Corte Ingles Tenerife also represents a life style and offers events some of which take place on Tenerife Island.
Tenerife Events organized by its biggest department store:
Check out Tenerife's Corte Ingles cultural events which may be interesting book readings, movies at Corte Inglés Cinemaforum, conferences on famous people like Shakespeare in connection with opera productions, jazz and other concerts, literary clubs, sports events such as for Corte Inglés Golf, art exhibitions such as graphic art. To understand the example of the varied events you need to know hardly any Spanish. Titles of events come with locations and dates while beautiful graphics show you what they are all about.
Tourist shopping for gifts at Corte Inglés:
Shopping with tax refund secret revealed for tourists.Spain's autonomous regions like Tenerife entitle non residents to shopping without the 5% IGIC. The equivalent tax on mainland Spain is 6%. Ask for one of the interpreters of the Corte Inglés who will lift the secret for you on the necessary procedure on how to get this money back. You could, then, get refunded when you buy beautiful gifts such as Toledo jewelery or swords, for example, at Corte Inglés Tenerife.
Tenerife's biggest megastore also owns convenience stores called Hipercor, Supercor and Opencor. Hear about the latest Corte Ingles Supercor in construction in Puerto de la Cruz.
Well, North Tenerife has its Piramides Martianez shops which are only closed during the night from 9p.m.or 8.p.m.respectively. My latest disappointment about Corte Ingles Tenerife:Don't you think, I should also report on something negative if it is in your interest? I may get carried away with my enthusiasm at times, but I feel I must tell you that Corte Ingles has not everything in stock you might need. Early in October 2009, I was looking for a 2 door fridge/freezer, which has its freezing compartment on the top. It needed to be lower than 167 cm and not wider than 55cm to fit into the only given space which I have in my built-in kitchen. I found 2 door fridge/freezers at Corte Inglés online. But there was none that could have come near a compromise, either. I was so disappointed. I had expected this mega mall to have something unusual for different needs as well. See for yourself what I found exactly under Corte Inglés Tenerife, when I googled Tenerife Corte Ingles 2 door fridges which means frigorificos 2 puertas...I looked at many other places in the Internet but, I also knew that Almacenes Siverio in Los Realejos has an amazing variety of stocks for appliances which Corte Inglés Tenerife does not seem to have. I paid €330 for the fridge at Siverio. I didn't even have to ask for a discount. They just gave me one. The fridge, which I bought there fitted better than my old one.Their first website is under construction.
What more has Corte Inglés up its sleeve for Tenerife?
Video on some summer fashion of Corte Inglés with stunning models:And after watching, also, listen to how the name Corte Inglés is pronounced in the Spanish language...
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What else is near main Corte Ingles Santa Cruz de Tenerife?Right beside it is Tenerife Island's main public Titsa bus station and a police department with a small Carrefour branch a few meters up the road. You get to Tenerife Auditorium with Parque Marítimo next to it when walking towards the ocean from Corte Ingles Tenerife. Tenerife's trade fair center Recinto Ferrial is located more to the right but, all withing 10 minutes walk from the tall but, also very wide, modern, green and white sky scraper Corte Ingles Tenerife. The view from its top floors must be overwhelming. You can see a stunning photo with Titsa bus station and auditorium Tenerife all in one at Tenerife transport by Titsa bus which is proof of how convenient it is to do a trip to Corte Ingles Santa Cruz, which is an excellent departing point for sight seeing in the capital. Walk down the flower lined avenue from Corte Ingles Tenerife. turn left on the bottom before crossing over at traffic circle and find the capital's most famous museum Museum of Man and Nature (Museo de la Naturaleza y el Hombre).
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