Good place to see the history behind this battle and the remains of the original fort. Interesting to get the perspective from Spain on the defeat of Nelson. It's free!
Good place to see the history behind this battle and the remains of the original fort. Interesting to get the perspective from Spain on the defeat of Nelson. It's free!
This small museum and interpretation centre is accessed down a steep stairway at the seaward side of the Plaza d'Espana. The lower parts of the fortified city walls are visible down here together with several old cannons, epigraphic stone tablets and illustrations of how the fortifications used to look. The staff are helpful and will lend you an information sheet in the language of your choice. Worth a visit!
In the Plaza de Espana there are stairs which lead down to the The Interpretation Centre of the Castillo de San Cristobal.
The Interpretation Centre enables the visitor to see remains of the castle walls, information on the defence of Tenerife, history of Santa Cruz, Castillo de San Cristobal, attacks on Santa Cruz and El Tigre.
I found the museum to be very interesting and the staff there to be enthusiastic, knowledgeable and helpful.
We stumbled upon this place on our last day on holiday. At first I though it was stairs down to a loo!
It is a small but nice little museum with displays in English. It was very informative about the local history and they seemed very proud about seeing off Nelson.
Being free, you can't quibble about the price.
Two minutes walk from the Monument to the Fallen on the Plaza Espana are steps to an underground museum - no entry fee - holding the ruins and remains of the San Cristobal Castle which was part of the defence against pirates and the British Royal Navy. I think the ruins of the castle were discovered when new water works were being excavated and much of the museum is a concrete tunnel with storyboards , with English translation.
The British tried on a number of occasions to capture Tenerife , without success - and the key of this exhibition is to see the cannon that shot off Horatio Nelson's arm - the tiger or El Tigre - in 1797.
I enjoyed the thirty minutes spent in the old sewers of Santa Cruz , losing count the number of times that I read , heard or saw the story of Nelson losing his arm. There is a short audio visual film in the bowels of the exhibition.
I visited this place with my wife december 2013, and was a little dissapointed, it was actually told better than it was in real. I would say the most exiting by this place and La Laguna in general was the trip up there from Santa Cruz by tram, that i can recommand :)
This place does not even have atmosphere, usually we like historical Places and like places where you can feel and breath the atmosphere, we though it was possible here, but...no.
This place only have value to say, I saw it, nothing else :)