{"id":17,"date":"2010-12-03T13:03:14","date_gmt":"2010-12-03T13:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.portatenerife.com\/blog\/?p=17"},"modified":"2015-11-04T13:19:50","modified_gmt":"2015-11-04T13:19:50","slug":"winter-sports-in-tenerife-skating-on-the-plaza-de-espana-in-santa-cruz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.portatenerife.com\/blog\/winter-sports-in-tenerife-skating-on-the-plaza-de-espana-in-santa-cruz\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter Sports in Tenerife \u2013 Skating on the Plaza de Espa\u00f1a in Santa Cruz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Winter has a firm grip on Europe. All of Europe? No, not in a few islands that belong to Europe, according to what we&#8217;ve been told. Therefore, we have to help a little in the Canaries, we want to express our solidarity with all the freezing people.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_249\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.portatenerife.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/plaza-espana-santa-cruz-tenerife.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-249 \" title=\"Construction of the skating rink in the Plaza de Espa\u00f1a in Santa Cruz, Tenerife\" alt=\"plaza-espana-santa-cruz-tenerife\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portatenerife.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/plaza-espana-santa-cruz-tenerife.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Construction of the skating rink in the Plaza de Espa\u00f1a in Santa Cruz, Tenerife<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Yes, something is happening now, in the very heart of Tenerife&#8217;s capital, Santa Cruz: in the Plaza de Espa\u00f1a our popular artificial lake at times changes a little and opens the way&#8230;<\/p>\n<h2>&#8230; to skating under the sun!<\/h2>\n<div id=\"attachment_251\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.portatenerife.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/plaza-espana-tenerife.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-251 \" alt=\"Unusual before the familiar crowd\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portatenerife.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/plaza-espana-tenerife.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Unusual before the familiar crowd<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Well, not quite. Because this is something special, when after a stroll through the city or visiting one of the many attractions still present on the islands of eternal spring, and somehow it becomes part of ourselves for Christmas and winter.<\/p>\n<h2>Opening of the ice rink<\/h2>\n<p>The opening of the ice rink was due to the 3rd December 2010. But since a severe storm struck the island at the beginning of the week, it wasn\u2019t.  However, that did not diminish the excitement, right? And even this storm had a good side:  el Teide shines again in a white robe.<\/p>\n<p>Up to 10 January 2011, each woman and man present on the 30 by 20-foot ice rink, which will be housed in a 7.5 meter high tent.<\/p>\n<p>The price for 1 hour skating with skate rental is 4.50\u20ac for children and 6\u20ac for adults. There are discounts for groups. The tram service is open every day from 10-22 clock.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_252\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.portatenerife.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/teide-with-fresh-snow.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-252 \" alt=\"Fresh Snow on the Teide after the storm\" src=\"http:\/\/www.portatenerife.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/teide-with-fresh-snow.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fresh Snow on the Teide after the storm<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Winter has a firm grip on Europe. All of Europe? No, not in a few islands that belong to Europe, according to what we&#8217;ve been told. Therefore, we have to help a little in the Canaries, we want to express our solidarity with all the freezing people. Construction of the skating rink in the Plaza &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.portatenerife.com\/blog\/winter-sports-in-tenerife-skating-on-the-plaza-de-espana-in-santa-cruz\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Winter Sports in Tenerife \u2013 Skating on the Plaza de Espa\u00f1a in Santa Cruz<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tenerife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portatenerife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portatenerife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portatenerife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portatenerife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portatenerife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.portatenerife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18,"href":"https:\/\/www.portatenerife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions\/18"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.portatenerife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portatenerife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.portatenerife.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}