Uploaded on 2014-10-08 by JCCordoba

Note: It wasn't imposible for me to take a pic of the whole city. At the left of the pic, we can find the port area and the oldest area of the city. At the port, nowadays there is an increasing industrial activity (maintainance of oil platforms) combined with hosting cruises from october until may. What is visible: Santa Cruz de Tenerife is a highly compacted city with hardly green spots seen from the heights surrounding the city. High residential buildings are seen at the left of the pic with a huge cultural infraestructure (Tenerife Auditorium). More or less at the centre of the pic a football stadium can be seen. 50 years ago it was a location at the outskirts of the city, now is a downtown location. Stacks can hardly be seen although there is a refinery almost downtown the city. As the Tenerife FC stadium, the refinery was very peripherial to the city centre 50 years ago, now it´s at 2 minutes walk from the biggest mall of the city just crossing one of the main avenues of the city. What it is not visible: Santa Cruz is a service city not a tourist (although the whole island receives 5 million tourists a year as a mean) or industrial city (although it has a major industrial premise inside. Fluent people live at the slope of a mountain from where the pic was taken. You can see that rooftop types change flat roofs at most of the city, tile roofs imitating north european styles at the slope. Finally, no visible cranes: as the rest of Spain, the Canaries suffer a huge building crisis. [1]: https://edxuploads.s3.amazonaws.com/14127639994024711.jpg