{"id":13539,"date":"2019-09-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-24T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/degustasantacruz.com\/curiosities-of-la-recova-santa-cruz-de-tenerifes-food-market\/"},"modified":"2019-09-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-24T23:00:00","slug":"curiosities-of-la-recova-santa-cruz-de-tenerifes-food-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/degustasantacruz.com\/en\/curiosities-of-la-recova-santa-cruz-de-tenerifes-food-market\/","title":{"rendered":"Curiosities of La Recova, Santa Cruz de Tenerife&#8217;s food market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you read the article<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/degustasantacruz.com\/la-recova-de-santa-cruz\/\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Get to know La Recova de Santa Cruz<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">  you will already know that this is one of the most special places in Santa Cruz de Tenerife. Y  <\/span><b><i>the perfect place to take the pulse of Tenerife&#8217;s gastronomic products. We talk about local products, as well as the amalgam of flavors and cultures that participate in our culinary tradition.  <\/i><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">There is a lot of history surrounding this symbolic enclave of the capital.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Today we have compiled some curiosities so that you can get to know it even better and understand why La Recova de Santa Cruz is a special place for the city and its inhabitants:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i><br \/>\n  <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Nuestra Se\u00f1ora de \u00c1frica Market, the Candelaria Basilica and the Cabildo are the work of the same architect:<\/span><br \/>\n<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/es.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jos%C3%A9_Enrique_Marrero_Regalado\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jos\u00e9 Enrique Marrero Regalado<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><br \/>\n  <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">born in Granadilla de Abona in 1897.<\/span><br \/>\n<\/i><i><br \/>\n  <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><br \/>\n<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">*<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i><br \/>\n  <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It consists of 3 areas of special interest<\/span><br \/>\n<\/i><i><br \/>\n  <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">:<\/span><br \/>\n<\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">o<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">   <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Abasto Market. It has two floors with 228 stalls offering all kinds of products: butcher&#8217;s shops, fishmongers, etc.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">o<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">   <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">La Rambla Azul. An outdoor gallery with 28 kiosks with a variety of items, such as antiques, second hand or vintage items, etc.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">o<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">   <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A shopping center consisting of 60 stores and services, such as parking, to serve the entire complex.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">*<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i><br \/>\n  <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 1995 a Cooperative Society was created, formed by all its merchants, who work every day to maintain quality and promote this space as one of the main attractions of the city,<\/span><br \/>\n<\/i><i><br \/>\n  <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> who work every day to maintain the quality and promote this space as one of the main attractions of the city. <\/span><br \/>\n<\/i> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">*<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In 2018, the 75th Anniversary was celebrated, reinforcing its prominence as a symbol of the city.<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">*<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Also in 2018, the Nuestra Se\u00f1ora de \u00c1frica Market received the Gold Medal of the Government of the Canary Islands, and the Gold Medal of the city of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">*<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On Sunday mornings, around La Recova de Santa Cruz, the Rastro is held, with a multitude of stalls and a bustling atmosphere, from the Market of Our Lady of Africa, extending to Bravo Murillo Street.<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">*<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">  <\/span><i><br \/>\n  <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Guimer\u00e1 streetcar stop is ideal if you want to visit the market and the cultural sites of interest in the surrounding area:<\/span><br \/>\n<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/teatenerife.es\/exposiciones\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">TEA Tenerife space of the arts<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><br \/>\n  <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span><br \/>\n<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.museosdetenerife.org\/muna-museo-de-naturaleza-y-arqueologia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">MUNA Museum of Nature and Mankind<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><br \/>\n  <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">,<\/span><br \/>\n<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/casacarnavalsantacruz.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Carnival House<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Nearby is the Church of La Concepci\u00f3n and the Guimer\u00e1 Theater, on the other side of the Barranco de Santos.<\/span><\/i><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">*<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What makes La Recova de Santa Cruz a point of reference and a place worth visiting is, without a doubt, the stories that take place there every day and of which all those who work to make it a different space, with a lot of flavor, are the protagonists.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Image by <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/es\/users\/Pexels-2286921\/?utm_source=link-attribution&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=image&amp;utm_content=1841132\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pexels<\/a> at <a href=\"https:\/\/pixabay.com\/es\/?utm_source=link-attribution&amp;utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_campaign=image&amp;utm_content=1841132\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Pixabay<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Degusta Santa Cruz we tell you some interesting facts about La Recova de Santa Cruz de Tenerife, a place to take the pulse of the capital.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13069,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[267],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/degustasantacruz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13539"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/degustasantacruz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/degustasantacruz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/degustasantacruz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/degustasantacruz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/degustasantacruz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/degustasantacruz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/degustasantacruz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/degustasantacruz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/degustasantacruz.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}