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Extract from the Puerto de la Cruz Travel Guides:
With over a hundred years pedigree in the field,
PUERTO DE LA CRUZ
does resort tourism well. The bustling, former harbour town, which still acts as a focal point for the business communities in the Orotava valley, was historically much favoured by British traders who erected the imposing
Grand Hotel Taoro
here in 1889. The hotel itself helped to define Puerto de la Cruz as a tourist destination. In the 1890s it became a fashionable spa town and since then it has been a preferred haunt for wintering European royalty and dignitaries such as Winston Churchill and Bertrand Russell. Despite the influx of various high-rise...
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