Carnival

Happiness and colour flow through the streets, making you feel like the star of a great improvised show. There is nothing to stop you from enjoying the moment you've been looking forward to all year: Tenerife's Carnival! The Island's most emblematic festival has been putting smiles on people's faces for centuries, in a whirlwind of rhythm, glitter and madness.

Carnival Groups & Contests

Every year, the carnivals bring a new opportunity for groups of friends to challenge one another. Contests between the various types of musical bands…

Carnival in other regions

If you are a keen carnival fan, you'll find that one week just isn't enough. You refuse to accept that the fun is over and begin to hunt the Island…

Daytime Carnival in Tenerife

After a long night of fun and dancing, we hope you have saved enough strength to see the other side of the Carnival: the daytime festivities. Groups…

Events

There is no better place to live the magic of the Carnival than the street. The decoration, the music, the hoards of people dressed in their costumes…

Tenerife's Carnival Queen

Shimmering sequins, feathers, colours, fabrics and textures – the huge structures that the aspirant queens are dressed in look truly amazing, and…

The history of Carnival in Tenerife

Researchers have persistently yet fruitlessly sought to determine the exact origin of the word Carnival. Some state that it comes from the term…