Hotel Tigaiga Blog.

A truly ’self-made man’. Born in Horndorf near Lüneburg. he began his career as an apprentice waiter at the hotel “Weisser Ross” in Lüneburg. After the Great War he felt the urge to spread his wings and this brought him to the Hotel Palace in Madrid. Later he was manager and leaseholder of the restaurant of the Gran Hotel Peinador in the Galician [ Continue reading ... ]

The Guanches were divided into various kingdoms, one of which was the kingdom of Taoro’, including the fertile Orotava Valley where –according to an old legend- a frightful dragon was always on the watch that nobody might steal the ‘golden apples’ growing in the valley. After various memorable battles, the Spanish conquerors finally defeated the natives, who retired to the region of today’s village called Realejo Bajo, and especially to the steepest slopes of the so-called Monte de Tigaiga. [ Continue reading ... ]