This document provides information about multiculturalism in Santa Úrsula, Tenerife. It notes that about 25% of Santa Úrsula's population of 15,000 are foreigners, most from Germany. It describes two neighborhoods in Santa Úrsula and notes amenities near each like parks, schools, and views. The document also shares photos of the town center of Santa Úrsula.

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2. Multiculturalism in our high school
In our school there are about 710
In this graphic we show the total of
students. different nationalities in the whole high
As we can see in the graphic the light school.
green portion represents the There are a lot of nationalities to be a
percentage of foreign students from high school in the North of the island.
different nationalities. Normally there are more nationalities in
the South because of the better weather
The dark green portion represents the conditions and because it is a touristic
percentage of Spanish students in our zone.
high school.

3. These are the foreigners in our high The last graphic shows the
school divided into girls and boys. foreigners in our town, Santa
Among them there are more girls than Úrsula.
boys, normally there are more boys We can notice that there are a lot
than girls although the difference is of Germans and Venezuelans, a few
not too big, it´s only a 12%. Chileans, Danish, Guatemalans,
Romanians and Senegaleses.
Girls are showed in blue, that
It’s a very big difference.
represents a 56%.
Boys are a 44% of the total.

5. Humboldt
This viewpoint is located in the road between La Orotava and Santa Úrsula. It was in
construction for 11 years and it has just opened to the public.
It was built in honour of Alexander Von Humboldt a very famous German explorer of
the 18th century. He saw the landscape and he thought that it was fascinating.
A lot of tourists of many countries come here to see the view or to drink or eat
something because there are two restaurants. There is a shop and an exposition room
too.
This is what you can see from there and this very big mountain at the bottom is El
Teide, the highest mountain in Spain.

6. Hara Sport Center

7. • It is an active social space.
• It’s a multicultural place. People from different
countries go there to do exercise.
• There are a cardio room, a cycling room, three
dance rooms, one room for practising martial
arts and one room with machines and
weights.
• There’s also a dance academy called “Máxima
Expresión”. There I dance funky with my
group.

9. The open-market
•It is a multicultural place.
•It is next to an Anglican Church.
•It is organised every first Saturday of the
month.
•There you can buy second hand things
(clothes, watches, cookware…), English
homemade food, etc.
•At Christmas time, Father Christmas comes to
give presents to children.

10. The open-market

11. Sitio Litre
• “Sitio Litre” is a fantastic place situated in Puerto de la Cruz.
• It is 230 years old.
• “Sitio Litre” has been continously owned by British families.
• The majority part of the visitor are Germans and British.
• “Sitio Litre” garden is the oldest surviving garden in
Tenerife.

12. Sitio Litre

13. WHAT IS MULTICULTURALISM?
Multiculturalism is the coexistence with
other cultures.
I think that this has to be in harmony and the
most important fact of a multicultural society
is the respect and tolerance to each other.

14. Multiculturalism in the world
Immigration gives us the opportunity to meet people from other
countries. But if we want to know more about them we need to
open our eyes, our ears and our hearts to listen to them and to
try to understand their habits and to learn from each other.
Those are really nice words but actually it does not happen so
easily and many times people from other countries do not feel
at home due to many reasons: we discriminate them,
sometimes we do not show interest in getting to know them, it
.
is not easy to find jobs, sometimes religion cause problems (at
school sometimes muslin girls have problems about wearing
their veil).

15. There are rich immigrants and poor immigrants and
this makes a big difference when we speak about
them. It is sad to say it but it is true. Most of our
football players are from other countries but those
are different, we admire them.
In Tenerife we have lot of immigrants in a no good
position, most of them from South America, and
Africa. Many Africans have arrived in very little boats
called “pateras”, they have no papers. We have special
houses to host them. The ones under 18 go to schools
and are given pocket money. They normally have
problems to integrate.
In Tenerife schools, in general, do not have special
programs to teach them Spanish and that makes
them difficult to attend the lessons and so they
get bored and have bad behaviour.

16. Personally, I live quite apart from all that until this project.
People here say that immigrants take our jobs, but that is
not really true. They don´t mind working anywhere and we
normally do. We think that Tenerife is ours and they are
just here because they want, so why to make efforts to get
to know them? To care about them, their problems,
worries,..? That is the politicians´ duty. We just want to
live well and we do not care much… until we get involved
in projects like this one that makes us think about it.
If we have a look we can see countries are made up of
inmigrants and thanks to them we have had the
opportunity to eat their food, to listen to their music, to
see their dances, to know different ways of thinking and
living, they are helping the country to grow in many
different aspects.

17. Foreigners in some European countries

18. Multicultural Societies.
Nowadays almost every European country is a multicultural society. The
country with more foreigners in Europe is Germany.
There are many different races among us and I feel happier now that I
have got closer to this subject.

19. ANGLICAN CHURCH (All the Saints’ Church)

20. WELCOME TO THE ANGLICAN CHURCH!!
- Welcome to the Anglican church, a place where foreigners pray.
- This church is located in Puerto De La Cruz in Taoro Park.
- It was built at the end of the 19th century by a widow called Ms. Charles with the donations
given by Christian people from different nationalities who lived or spent part of the year in
Puerto de la Cruz.
- It was built because a group of British citizens used to meet for morning prayer.

21. LET’S EXPLORE THE CHURCH¡
- The interior of the church is very beautiful, full of nice stained glass windows and
pictures donated by Brits.
- There are a lot of benches for the people to sit and pray.
- Also there is an altar where, on Saturdays and Fridays , the prayer gives a mass for the
foreigner believers.
- We can see an instrument in the church, an allen organ which is a modern digital
Electronic model.

22. THE PRAYER’S HOUSE
- This is the prayer ‘s house where I met the German prayer.
- I visited his house, full of books, bibles and pictures.
- When I was going to interview him, there was a problem :
I DIDN’T UNDERSTAND HIS ENGLISH! But a prayer ‘s friend came and he was
like a translator, and finally I could get the information I needed.

23. And after the mass… RESTAURANT¡
-This restaurant is the place where foreigners go when the mass ends.
-To have something there is like a ritual after the mass and it is
normally full up.
- The open-market is organized here every first Saturday of each month.

24. The church’s gardens
-It has wooden benches provided by friends of the church in memory of their loved
ones.
-Also there is another garden, the Rose garden, that is a memorial to the victims of
the plane crashed in Los Rodeos in 1980, some of them were holidaymakers from
the U.K.

25. The Loro Parque is a theme park that is
responsible of the conservation, research,
education, breeding and rescue of the animals.
It was created in 1976 by Wolfgang Kiessling.

26. A collection of more than 2,000 palm
trees from around the world.

27. .
Orquidearium, with a large representation of orchids.

28. The dragon garden
The cactus garden

29. Dolphins

30. Orcas and Sea lions

31. Pinguinarium

32. The Loro Show

33. Show with parrots

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35. The British Library

36. The library is situated in Puerto
de La Cruz in the North of the
island.
This library was created in
1903.
Now the director is Ken Fisher.
You can do many things here
like reading books and
magazines, studying, playing
with puzzles, watching videos…
The building is situated in a
very beautiful sub-tropical
garden as you can see in the
photos.

37. The library is divided into different sections like
nature, space, children, sports, food…
There are about 40000 books and the oldest
ones are six original editions from 1920.

38. They have a way to know which are the new
books, they put a yellow star and six moths later
they replace it by an orange stickers.
It is run by dedicated volunteers who spend a lot of
time keeping it well organized, clean and tidy.
They do no get any help from the local goverment.
They raise the funds by the members of the library
who pay about 30 € or 12 €.

39. In 2002, Margaret Thatcher (Prime Minister of
the United Kingdom) came to visit the library,
because it is the biggest English library outside
the country.
Also it is a symbol for English people who live in
Tenerife.

40. For me this place is a social space for English
people because they meet there to talk, to
have a coffee, to borrow books, DVDs,
videos…

41. Santa Úrsula
- Santa Úrsula is a town in the north of Tenerife.
- It has about 15 thousand inhabitants.
- The 25% of this population are foreigners, most of
them are Germans.
- There are some social spaces such as a swimming
pool, a gym, some squares and so on.

42. Santa Úrsula

43. The neighbourhoods
Garden’s neighbourhood
- It is between San Luis and La
Corujera.
- It takes about 20 minutes
walking to the town center.
-There are 2 parks near home,
one of them with a lot of
vegetation.
- There are a sport field.
- A Primary School, a High
School and an electric power
station are near here.
- There are beautiful views
from this place.

44. Carmenaty’s neigbourhood:
-It is located in a town called La
Orotava.
- It takes 5 minutes walking to
the town center.
- Near home there is a park .
- Villalba Herba’s High School
is near to this park .
-Iberoamerican Art’s Museum
is also in this town.

45. Tenerife´s Carnival
The carnival in Tenerife is
one of the most popular
and known all over the
world after Río de Janeiro´s
Carnival.
Thousands of people go out
to the street to enjoy.
In carnival the tourism
increases like in summer .

46. In 2002,the carnival was dedicated to
pirates and the city became
the carnival’s capital of the world

47. In 1987 the famous singer Celia Cruz came
to Tenerife with the Billo´s Caracas Boys
orchestra and her famous song “Life is a
carnival”.

49. Carnival last 9 days, the most important events are:
- First Friday: There is a parade announcing the carnival has
arrived.
- Saturday: There are several stages with different shows
located in different squares of the city.
- Monday: it is the great party, there are a lot of artists in each
stage and at night there are a lot of important Djs.

50. - Tuesday: the greatest parade (El Coso). This is the most tourist
and important day.
- Wednesday: There is a parade with “our dead sardine”. At the
end of the parade the sardine is burnt and the dance starts.
- Saturday: there is a big party from 11:00 to 6:00 in the
morning
- Sunday: it's the last day, in the morning there is an antique car
contest and at night Carnival is closed with fireworks.

51. .
For us Carnival is a good season to meet people from
other countries because a lot of foreigners come here .

52. Some bits of our meetings

54. These are the ones who are missing the beautiful Rome

55. Logo by Israel

59. SANTA ÚRSULA