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Tenerife museums will add Palmetum, so I believe.Tenerife museums including one for palms sounds amazing, doesn't it? In my mind the whole park Palmetum is a Canary island museum not only for palms. It's also living truth for an enormous man made park or palm forest under impossible conditions. It serves as example of human staying power and imagination. Palms from all over the world were imported. Many were grown painstakingly with much loving care from seeds within the park. Some had to be placed in hollowed out areas to fend off coastal winds. The park Parque Palmetum as well as the whole of Tenerife island is definitely worth including in world culture tours and theme travels, because there are so many Tenerife museums (museos) and sites that are well worth seeing.
To see Palmetum you may go to Santa Cruz the capital and enter Parque Marítimo César Manrique which you find just a few steps from the landmark Auditorium of Tenerife. Entrance is cheap and well worth it because, The Palmetum Santa Cruz has been planted on a 40 meter high hill in 1996 on top of a city dumping ground. It stretches over an area which is bigger than that of the capital's alternative large park Parque Garcia Sanabria which is not only a favorite for the city's and island's people on retirement. Please, go from Tenerife museums Palmetum to Tenerife Living- Garcia-Sanabria to see the capital's oldest park. Palmetum's palms have grown well over the years despite great initial problems. Unfortunately, the designer and architect César Manrique of Maritim Parque where Palmetum was added on died in a motor car accident and could never see the fruits of the planting struggles. Subterranean gases were some of them. This was a costly and time consuming stumbling point to surmount. Today, the park has not only enhanced the views of large Santa Cruz hotels nearby. It can now be seen like a hill palm forest from a nearby freeway as well. What I like about the park is that one must surely feel like in a tropical setting within it but, right by the sea.
Other Tenerife remarkable parks are:
Jardin Botanico(Jardín de Aclimatación de La Orotava) Addr.: C/Retama, 2 (La Paz) Free Way TF 312 Parque Taoro; small semi shade oasis with big and, within Taoro is The most unusual museum is the world heritage park Cañadas del Teide which is a special spot for Tenerife Island excursions and adventure tours in the Canaries. The biggest of all parks and living museums is Tenerife's ocean where you can watch whales and, fauna under and above the sea by Los Gigantes. Then there is Loro Park which is such a contrast.
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