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Extract from the La Laguna Travel Guides:
Now a lively and historic university town,
LA LAGUNA
was Tenerife's first major settlement and, for over two hundred years, its capital. Though the government may have moved, and its bland suburbs now melt with Santa Cruz, its well-preserved centre remains a showpiece of Canarian architecture and the city remains the cultural, religious and learning centre of Tenerife.
A good deal higher than Santa Cruz and so with a considerably cooler, cloudier and rainier climate than at the coast, the town took its name from its proximity to a former lagoon which was drained as late as 1837, after having already shrunk as a result of...
read the whole La Laguna Travel Guides...
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