La Laguna (pop. 125,183) is Tenerife's Province second most important city. It is the old Capital of the Island and seat of the Adelantados, situated on the Aguere Valley amid a beautiful country. It is also the cultural and religious Capital, due to the fact that it lodges the San Fernando University and the province's Bishopric. Its urban design its neatly arranged. The whole city is full of outstanding architectural monuments, palaces and traditional houses of the XVII and XVIII centuries. Among its religious buildings the most outstanding are The Cathedral, the Santo Domingo and the Concepción Churches - this latter one a historical and artistic monument; one can also find the Church of the Holy Christ and the San Miguel Chapel. History and art in La Laguna are to be found in the Casa Ossuna Museum, the Friends of the Country Economic Society Museum, the Concepción Church's Museum and the Cathedral's Museum. La Laguna's Municipal boundaries extend to the towns of Tejina and Valle Guerra - very rich agricultural areas - as well as Bajamar and Punta del Hidalgo, which have become tourist resorts with first class hotels, natural swimming pools and extraordinary landscapes. Areas such as La Cuesta and Taco, where part of the industries of the Island have been situated in the last few years, are also part of La Laguna.

Playa de Las Americas started life around 30 years ago as a handful of hotels set around a man-made beach with sand imported from the Sahara. Since then, it's grown to be one of the largest holiday resorts in Europe once combined with the suburbs of San Eugenio, Fañabe, Torviscas and Costa Adeje. It's grown as far as it can to the east as Los Cristianos is now blocking it's way in that direction. So the developement is well underway to the west and upwards towards the TF1 motorway that takes you up to the north of the island.

Situated at the southern end of the west coast where the climate is the best on the whole island. There are several, blue-flag beaches along the coast, watersports, a vast choice of restaurants and bars and arguably the best nightlife in the Canaries. There's the Octopus Water Park and dolphinarium, crazy golf, 10-pin bowling, a nearby zoo There is now also a big balloon that takes you high up in the air and gives you an aerial view of the coastline. Night time is an experience in "Las Americas" where just about anything goes, especially in the summer months from mid June to mid September. The place to head (or avoid - depending on what you're looking for) is the central stretch of "Veronicas". this is where you'll find the best club nights and streets packed solid with huge crowds of revellers until the early hours of every morning. Internationally renowned DJs are flown in for special club nights hosted by such greats as Clockwork Orange, Cream and Miss Moneypenny's. Top tunes are played in all the bars there as well as the clubs. Hold on to your wallet though and make sure you can hold your booze as it really can get very rowdy. Start off in the area known as "The Patch" until you're ready for clubbing then a couple more drinks at Veronicas.