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.

Entrance is cheap and well worth it because,
you may also enjoy the saltwater pools, restaurant, bar and gym in the Marina Park. A kid's fun section is also there.

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.

Hot tip for Palmetum and Añaza Beach:

Other Tenerife remarkable parks are:

Fantastic easy going museum district:

In fact, spain art with its abundant street art of sculptures in parks lends the capital Santa Cruz de Tenerife a unique face of museum value of original and great dimension.

Addr.: C/Retama, 2 (La Paz) Free Way TF 312
Tel: +0034 922 389464-922 383572
Fax 0034+922 371 59
9.00 a.m.-19.00 p.m. (apr.-end sept.)
Closed: Jan.01, Easter Freyday, and 25th Dec.
Library and Herbatario 9.00 a.m. - 13.00 p.m. (Mo-Fr.)
This Parque Botanico, as Puerto Cruzeros call it, is yet another amazing show garden worthy to be compared to Tenerife museums'Palmetum, as it has intersting palms as well.

Parque Taoro; small semi shade oasis with big
cooling waterfall within the
suburb Taoro Park in Puerto de la Cruz.
Has best town outlook and lovely garden restaurant in park

and, within Taoro is
Risco Bello Aquapark with its lake, swans, peacocks and, chicken. Tea is served at the small park. All this is totally different from Tenerife museums' Palmetum.

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.

From Tenerife Museums' Palmetum back to Tenerife museums by la Noria.

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