Fiestas de Mayo in the capital, Santa Cruz de Tenerife Photo: By Koppchen (Own work) [CC BY 3.0] |
We've already covered Tenerife Carnival Dates, Easter Week Events, Corpus Christi Carpets, the Romerías, as well as Public Holidays and Municipal Holidays the dates of which give clues to the fiestas in each district.
Fiestas in Tenerife and the Canary Islands come in two varieties: winter and summer. Winter festivals include everything in the Christmas season, plus the Carnival (once renamed as "Winter Festival" when it was prohibited by Franco). Summer ones include Corpus Cristi and the vast array of traditional folk festivals (Romerias), which actually start taking place almost as soon as Christmas is over and run right through to the end of October.
Some events, such as annual Fiestas de la Cruz, San Juan, or the Three Kings parade on January 5th, plus Christmas & New Year, of course, are held on set dates every year, irrespective of what day of the week they fall on.
Others revolve around the "moveable feasts" of the Catholic church's calendar, like Easter, for example, which then allows us to work backwards to the dates for lent and for the Carnival. And there are others, like Corpus Cristi, where the main events to be seen occur so many days before or after the "religious" dates.
Many others pay homage to a particular saint, who's day is on a fixed date, but are held in different places on different weekends, worked out by a complicated formula, such as 'the second Saturday, after the third Sunday, provided the wind is blowing from the east.' We may not always have advance warning of those. We're not sure even organisers always get the formula right!
We try to cover the main fiestas each month: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August, September, October, November, December.
Have we covered every single traditional fiesta in Tenerife? We doubt it! We suspect that nobody really knows everything about all of them, nevertheless, here's what we have on fiestas in all thirty-one municipalities in Tenerife:
- Fiestas in Adeje
- Fiestas in Arafo
- Fiestas in Arico
- Fiestas in Arona
- Fiestas in Buenavista del Norte
- Fiestas in Candelaria
- Fiestas in El Rosario
- Fiestas in El Sauzal
- Fiestas in El Tanque
- Fiestas in Fasnia
- Fiestas in Garachico
- Fiestas in Granadilla de Abona
- Fiestas in La Guancha
- Fiestas in Guía de Isora
- Fiestas in Güímar
- Fiestas in Icod de los Vinos
- Fiestas in La Matanza de Acentejo
- Fiestas in La Orotava
- Fiestas in La Victoria de Acentejo
- Fiestas in Los Realejos
- Fiestas in Los Silos
- Fiestas in Puerto de la Cruz
- Fiestas in San Cristóbal de La Laguna
- Fiestas in San Juan de la Rambla
- Fiestas in San Miguel de Abona
- Fiestas in Santa Cruz de Tenerife
- Fiestas in Santa Úrsula
- Fiestas in Santiago del Teide
- Fiestas in Tacoronte
- Fiestas in Tegueste
- Fiestas in Vilaflor de Chasna