Punta Brava cliffs are being taken care of 
Plus general information 

The Punta Brava or Puerto de la Cruz Brave Point with its magnificent cliffs isn't only loved by locals, such as the hamlet's fishing folk who lives there.

Tourists who have discovered this part of Puerto de la Cruz always return to this off the beaten track. Hence, it must be  maintained. That's the case now. 

A new signpost

Don't enter where you see this sign...

Why?

Various kinds of works to the entire ocean front will go on for another six weeks.

The hamlet at the end of Playa Jardin another Puerto Cruz success story

Indeed, the residents who had been evacuated could return to their houses at #19, 21 and 23 on November 21, 2018. Mayor Lope Alfonso had announced this a few days before. He also told the Media that all the cliff stabilizing that amounted to Euro 1,5 Million was a tremendous success. Mind that these were really good news. Why?  In fact, the rogue waves of El Bravo that caused substantial damage in several parts of Tenerife Island in November 2018 didn't leave any negative signs on the repair works of Calle Tegueste.   

What makes Calle Tegueste of the fishing hamlet opposite Loro Park so special?

It only has about seventy dwellings. Most have less than three stories and hardly more than ten meters of house front. There is no traffic noise and no pollution.
Occasionally, evergreen Tamarix bushes are tucked into its black volcanic cliffs. 

 They may also bring less pleasant surprises, though. There, the wild Atlantic doesn't only inspire admiration, as it can also cause damage to the rocks to such an extent that it undermines the coastal road.

There, a cave has been fortified.

This happened long before 2018, as I remember well. 

Also, there's already Graffiti on the concrete that was placed as reinforcement, as shown.

Further down the road over time,  the ocean had been eating a big hole into the rocks of the cliff.  This caused a tear in the asphalted road on May 13 in 2015.  It took up a section of 20 meters in length and more than a meter in width. Parts of it together with a wall section tumbled down the cliff.

Nobody was harmed.

Later, there were road repairs and much more, as portrayed above.

Punta Brava cliff stabilizing works and more continues

I spotted a very tall crane on August 17, 2018. It placed big boulders onto the seaside below the endangered coastal road. They came from a huge truck that was parked on an empty terrain beside a little chapel by the main road. This is the subtropical garden access point to Calle Tegueste opposite Loro Park.

How can wheelchairs enter Calle Tegueste?

Wheelchairs can only enter Tegueste road by the wall painting from the C/Pellinor side. Why? There are steps by the other end.

Many new Holiday homes called Viviendas Vacacionales in Punta Brava

They came into being in 2020 and 2021 round about the time of the Pandemic lock-down. Then, many house owners decided to convert buildings for Tenerife holiday home accommodation. Notice the sign Vv by the door on the photo below. 

Punta Brava since the Seventies

This tiny village at the end of its long beach only became a tourist attraction in the last three decades of XX. That was after the landscape architect César Manrique had turned a rocky shore into the Playa Jardin Tenerife garden beach . Also Loro park tourists started to discover the hamlet over the road where delicious fish could be savored. 

By the way, there's a short-cut to the garden beach Playa Punta Brava that borders the suburb by this name. It's via Calle Añagua that you reach from the middle of Punta Brava by Plaza Ballistoneros.  

Interesting history about the former Maria Jimenez suburb

By the way, this enclave of the fishing folk at the end of Playa Jardin was still called Maria Jimenez in 1905. Then, it only had five houses by a sand road outside Calle Tegueste near today's church of Paroquia Santa Rita. In those days, all terrain from the gorge San Felipe including today's Loro Park as far as the Burgado opposite Hotel Maritim still belonged to Los Realejos.  No Spanish law of the coast (Ley de la Costa) existed. The latter forbids all structures within 30 meters from the seashore.

More Punta Brava history by the event of December 1910

Commemorated on the centenarian event stone plaque are four Norwegians who lost their lives on one of the most trecherous Tenerife coasts that ships should not only avoid when winds are strong.  Then unfortunately, five heroes from the Punta Brava region perished when helping to save 14 foreigners with the help of a rope. 

Casa Julian ist the Tenerife Restaurant with its kitchen built into lava rocks on Punta Brava Beach. It dates back to the first or second decade of XX. My friend Jetty Henriette Hinder introduced me to this place in 2003 when the terrace was still in the open.  Then, there was Casa Maria a family run restaurant with excellent prawn dishes. Maria was in her Sixties at the time when we celebrated birthdays there. I also miss very much Restaurant Tambos for eating out Tenerife seafood. Perhaps, it has relocated to Santa Ursula. I know that there is Restaurant Marlin in Tambos place, now. 

Oh and as not to forget, there is the Pirelli Steak House an American style eating place of the finest with ocean views on Calle Tegueste with main Acces behind Iglesia Santa Maria in Calle Bencomo, 42. It has been founded by the owner of Loro Parque.  

Other remarkable business in Calle Bencomo of Punta Brava?

There's a good service provider for IT i.e. computer-  and mobile phone problems. It is called Plus Informatica at No.78, Calle Bencomo, Puerto de la Cruz. 

Cheap holiday home accommodation at Puerto Nest Hostel

One of very few of Tenerife hostels  is at about midway at number 12 at Calle Victor Machado which is portrayed below. This so called Puerto Nest Hostel whose roof top Azotea is ideal for group parties fills an accommodation niche for as little as Euro 22 or 23 per person. Also, there are double-bed rooms for Euro 44 which could vary depending on seasons and more. Hopefully, ventilation or aircon is provided in the rooms. One with 6 bunkbeds is facing the road.  

Many get down to their knees to decorate one of the suburb's main streets during the celebration of Salt and flower carpets  This road connects their beloved church Iglesia Santa Rita built by the late Padre Antonio with a very special chapel of the Cruz by Calle Pelinor.

The Punta Brava residents are also in total agreement when their interests, such as safety are at stake.

Mind a Green Party has been in town since 1983.

It is good when workers and machines shore up hollowed out caves. That's repairs. However, it is much more important to prevent  new damage.  By the looks of it this was happening when I took the photo.

That's why an earth moving machine and crane were busy to create a breakwater called a Dique in Spanish. The security guard at the site whom I asked some questions called it like that.

As said above, all was a great success by middle of November 2018 while more works would go on. I shall keep you posted.

The strange angle in which the photo has been taken only shows a few houses in the background. An optical illusion... However, it depicts two sides of the amazing wall by the awkword cliff, a sloping ground fit for wheelchairs and some central area that has been reserved for landscaping changes. Mind it had plants before. The foreground of the wall is facing Pirelli's steakhouse, that's hidden. That restaurant at tables and chairs there on the passage to my delight. That was when I passed several months ago or last year. 

Getting to Punta Brava

Of course, you can travel there when you use the Loro Park Mini train provided you have a park ticket on hand. Some people have one for every day of the year. Otherwise during the week, Titsa Guagua bus 381 connects La Longuera Realejos via Punta Brava and Plaza del Charco with Plaza Europa where the Loro Park mini train departs. The bus (guagua) stop is in front of  McDonalds. 

You would have to get off by Iglesia Punta Brava that is also the terminal for the 381 guagua except on weekdays until Saturday by 13 hours. On parts of wre bus stops by Linea 381, such as outside the Puerto Cruz bus station.

Do you want to see some real stunning photos of this Brave Point outside the beaten track of Puerto de la Cruz where even a secret beach features?

From Punta Brava back to Puerto de la Cruz

where the fishing hamlet at Brave Point is just a tiny part.

Why enhorabuena which means congratulations for work well done was the highlight by Mayor Lope Alfonso in this article in Spanish

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