This 'Museum of the Carpets' celebrates the town’s Corpus Christi festival with its carpets created from flowers and coloured sands from El Teide. Set in a beautiful mansion dating from 1642, exhibits explain the history of the tradition, as well as the process. There is also a wonderfully atmospheric and grainy 10-minute black-and-white audiovisual presentation of past festivities.
Museo de las Alfombras
North Coast Tenerife
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Tenerife Espacio de las Artes (TEA)
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