Expect surprises by a trip to La Baranda Tenerife besides Casa del Vino Baranda...La Baranda Tenerife is a name for a whole region by el Sauzal in north west of Santa Cruz de Tenerife Spain province and island. It belongs to district and town El Sauzal which has 18,31 square km. It's immediate neighbors are Santa Ursula and Tacoronte. Casa del Vino Baranda finca (farmstead) is one of most amazing Tenerife fincas with typical, picturesque Canary houses dating back to the 17th century.
Nowadays, this farmstead is listed as wine museum which made the area Baranda famous.When you look at human settlement below Casa Vino Baranda you can't help but thinking that it's situated higher than 300 meters above the sea. Look at mount Teide off Baranda with most stunning panorama in front which can be discovered from La Baranda Tenerife. La Baranda is also a name for the community center which you see, first, coming from Carretera General the old Tenerife coastal road in addition to Free Way TF5.(Take exit km 21) Listen to what happened to us...
Reading Baranda on a huge building in big letters made us think that it had to be Tenerife's wine museum Baranda. It surely would look the part - like on its catalogue pictures - on reverse side of the big house. Casa del Vino was, however, its neighbor about 60 meters down the road from it. Also, it looked like hundreds Soon, we learned that we were mistaken. We found La Baranda dance with live music and a Spanish singer at La Baranda community Hall, instead.
Mount Teide in the back of a most fantastic panorama would have stolen the show (see first photo on top) had Spain's highest peak not been covered with endlessly moving clouds on this July by 4.p.m. in the afternoon when we were there. Leaving the center, we were puzzled, again, by the missing of a proper sign visible from far to direct you to Casa del Vino, instead. If we had taken a taxi we would have avoided all sign post confusion. Lower areas of La Baranda Tenerife like so many a coastal settlement on the biggest of all Canary Islands look like a labyrint of roads serpentining all over slopes by the coast.
We drove around on those La Baranda hills curious to find the coast but, eventually gave up. Not that Casa del Vino was in such a location... So much we knew.
Find la Baranda on more detailed map close to El Sauzal.
Having an electronic way finder inside your car helps, unless, you go to tourist resorts, only, using Tenerife transport by a Titsa bus... Did you know that you can learn to taste wine at Casa del Vino Baranda? Buy a crash course lasting several weeks daily for about Euros 70 from approximately March 2009 onwards... "That's a give away", whispered somebody at Casa del Vino to me. Why are the classes cheap? During the course you will taste Casa del Vino wines costing between Euros 5 up to Euros 1000. Music entertainment at museum of wine.Enjoy classical concerts at Casa del Vino la Baranda Tenerife... Dates for this entertainment Tenerife will be on similar days in July/August 2009 like in 2008 or 2007, before. Have a look at dates and times for what kind of music you may expect by Casa Vino Baranda at Casa Vino adjuntos. Tickets will be sold again next year at Casa del Vino at its entrance door. The ticket price of about Euros 25 will include a free meal at Restaurant Casa Vino where vegetables from El Sauzal market are known for quality of the cuisine of the house.
Any meal taken with the right wine at Restaurante Casa del Vino which is proud to be joint but, not run by the only museum for Tenerife wines is bound to be a success. Restaurant Casa Vino La Baranda Tenerife is, generally, open until about 23.00 at night while museum and other places of Casa del Vino Baranda close by 21.00 p.m. And don't forget, no entrance on Sundays... Perhaps, you missed out on a previous article in Tenerife trips where it's stressed not to go to Casa del Vino La Baranda with your own car. Or do you just want to drink an alcohol free Dorada beer, there, which is not guarantied to get? Rather sample some of the nectar of the gods called wine at Casa Vino Baranda Tenerife. Buy a bottle or 2 to take overseas. Browse the numerours rooms, nooks and halls of a vineyard mansion which today gives museum testimony to over 300 years of expert wine making tradition. Admire rustic, antique wine producing gadjets and equipment and its hall of art. Watch the 'Audiovisio' in a separate room on how wines are made in Tenerife, today. Don't miss its house for honey (casa de la miel). Contemplate the exqusite ceiling in its Ermita (chapel) and gaze at the fantastic valley la Baranda below where endless blue of ocean is the limit. Bring your special panorama lens to shoot perfect Casa del Vino Baranda photos inside because, my little Konika wouldn't do the trick. I've heard of many a holiday home in Tenerife and villa to rent at El Sauzal La Baranda while it offers entertainment and things to do for many a taste. Besides, the luxury resort la Quinta is not far away. Please, go from la Baranda Tenerife to entertainment Tenerife its most exciting of all for tourists, expats and Tinerfeños alike.
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That's the author of this article La Baranda Tenerife at this amazing 3 level community center where many of the region's people seemed to meet.
