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Extract from the Santa Cruz Travel Guides:
Home to the archipelago's biggest container shipping port and a number of oil refineries,
SANTA CRUZ
is no aesthete's delight, but its uniquely Canarian urban vibrance is hard to find elsewhere on the island. From the time of the landing of the first conquistadors, Santa Cruz became the island's main port and, as Tenerife became a routine stop-off for replenishing supplies before the final leg of the journey to the New World, Spanish galleons would regularly anchor here and the town was well-fortified to protect them. Santa Cruz continues to be a convenient and popular port of call for navies of the world, tankers and Atlantic trawlers...
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