Puerto Street Art, the project that hides the transformation into a museum in Puerto de la Cruz

Puerto Street Art, the project that hides the transformation into a museum in Puerto de la Cruz

Cross port, an outdoor canvas, where the identity of the urban creativity makes sense in facades, streets or municipal furniture itself. The cause of this metamorphosis is port street art, a project that has taken advantage of the charm of the different spaces, their history and that of those who live there to rewrite the cultural and innovative character Township.

Sprays and brushes that draw figurative and abstract shapes and colors with which different artists integrate their vindictive messages or artistic visions in the gray of the urban landscape. Behind each one of the works of art that are exhibited in the tourist city there are several stories, that of the artist, that of the citizens of the place that welcomes them and that of the relationship that is established between all of them.

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If you are one of the lucky ones who will enjoy on August 6, Phe Festival, the concert more cool of the summer, write down in your agenda a walk to discover the urban art of Puerto de la Cruz. Because taking selfies on the beach with Teide in the background is cool, but going through the city like a detective, in search of the best photo of graffiti, interventions or murals, is priceless. You won't find enough filters or apps for your images!

Exhibitions throughout the city

Ro.Ro_1It was a natural process. port street art started in Puerto de la Cruz as a pilot project with the aim of improving the appearance of some facades in the neighborhood of La Ranilla, and was promoted by the Urban Development Consortium for the Rehabilitation of Puerto de la Cruz, together with the Department of Culture and the Department of Urban Planning of the Puerto de la Cruz City Council.

But the transition from urban intervention to "multidisciplinary open-air museum" came from the hand of well-known cultural events organized by the City Council, such as the International Street Art Festival of Puerto de la Cruz, Mueca, and the festival International Travel and Adventure Literature of Puerto de la Cruz, journey, and what in its beginnings was an initiative to dissipate the gray and the abandonment of buildings and streets, today is a explosion of color that has filled the city with ephemeral art.

And the transformation continues. Just like when you visit the Reina Sofía Museum, the Tate Modern, the Guggenheim in Bilbao or the MoMA, in the open-air museum in Puerto de la Cruz you will find up to five rooms structured according to the different artistic disciplines that have become part of the collection of port street art: in Room 1 you will find road interventions; in Room 2, sculpture on facade; in Room 3, mural interventions; Room 4 is made up of sculpture; and finally the interventions in neighborhoods make up Room 5.

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Look for the interpretive tables and totems installed in the city, scan the QR code and take your tour to find out who is each of the artists and works.

PSA currently has around fifteen urban works, "signed by internationally recognized artists" that continue to grow with the different cultural projects that support the Cultural Strategy of Puerto de la Cruz (ECPC2020), together with the coordination of the Puerto de Street Art work platform.

When you are walking around Puerto de la Cruz, look around you. Art haunts you...

5 reasons not to miss Phe Festival

Less than 20 days left. Phe Festival is here, and with the concert of 6th August on the esplanade of the wharf Cross port, a sample of the festival that we dream of having in Tenerife in the future. We know that devotees of good music will not miss the opportunity to join the experience, but if there is still someone undecided, we have chosen 5 reasons not to miss.


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1. It is celebrated in Puerto de la Cuz

Ok, we'll throw the topic: any excuse is good to visit Cross port, one of the most charming destinations in Tenerife with a mild climate all year round, multicolored skies and an intense smell of the sea. And it is because its history is linked to the history of tourism and today it is evolving by leaps and bounds to become a benchmark for cultural tourism. It is true that Phe Festival It is not the only festival that is celebrated next to the beach, within the wide range of summer offers in our country. But it is the only one that takes place in a destination where you can take baths in the sun or in the water of the Atlantic in beautiful black sand beaches (Martiánez and Playa Jardín) with the masterful figure of the Mount Teide at the bottom. Without leaving the promenade you will find the pool complex Lago Martianez, a work of art designed by Cesar Manrique where you can refresh yourself with all the comforts. Because art and culture can be breathed in every corner, from the beauty of the mansions and buildings that are part of its historic complex, to the different cultural projects that support the Cultural Strategy of Puerto de la Cruz (ECPC2020), in which its greatest attraction stands out, a city focused on culture that transmits its enthusiasm to those who visit it. Go, an ideal vacation plan.


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2. Great direct

Music is variety, and that is Phe Festival. Indie, rock, dance, electronic, artists to discover, the best national groups, proposals made in Canary Islands… Cycle, Of faith,The Red Room, Belako, Red Beard, Kostrok a firm commitment to groups that are a reference in the independent national sphere and electronics with international claim that do not usually go through Tenerife. Can we ask for more? Yes, Mr Paradise as continuity dj.


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3. Innovation and Culture also in summer

One of the most interesting proposals of the festival program are the meetings Ph I+C, which this year will analyze through encounters, exhibitions and networking the value of culture as an accelerator of the sustainable development of cities. Among many other things, they will have ambassadors from two first-rate cultural projects, one recently launched, such as the Atlantic Museum of Lanzarote and the Benicassim International Festival, a veteran in these fights. If there is something that will be talked about, and a lot, it is the interactive installation of mapping from Simone Martin about sculptures of Julius Grandson. will be the friday august 5 in the Cultural Space Castle, one day before the concert.


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4. Cheaper, impossible

One of the efforts of Phe Festival is to offer entertainment and knowledge for a more than affordable price. An 8-hour concert with 6 groups for only €20? As it is. And the best of all is that for students of the University of La Laguna the ticket has a discount of 20%. And above the educational-informative day on Friday, August 5 is free


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5. Things of good eating

If what you like is good food, you will have at your disposal in the venue where the concert will be held a selection of gastronets (say food trucks) Y food stalls with the most varied menus so you can enjoy live music like a maharajah. As if this were not enough, in Puerto de la Cruz you have a interesting culinary offer, where you can taste everything from the best Canarian fish with wrinkled potatoes and home-style mojo picón to signature cuisine.

8 places to shoot a short film in Puerto de la Cruz

you know that in Phe Festival We aspire to be a platform that generates artistic and social actions with personality that inspire a committed and active public. That's why we don't want to only offer live concerts, which there will also be, and with a luxury line-up! Our hope is that whoever approaches Cross port the second week of august find a great entertainment experience made up of the sum of music, cinema, trends, gastronomy and innovation.

So we have launched with the call for Phe Films: an eintensive filming meeting for the creation of an audiovisual piece in Tenerife during the celebration of the festival. And we know that in the Canary Islands there are great creatives, very skilled with camera techniques, and for this reason we want to invite you to discover the potential of the tourist city, where culture is breathed in each of its streets, houses, monuments and landscapes, and turn them into the perfect movie set.

Do you want to be the next winner of the Goya for best short? We have prepared this list with some charming place ideas (or not) to shoot the movie of the century and win the Phe Films award (yes, it has reward). Throw a little imagination and action!

1.- Port Street Art

For those looking for original decorations, there is nothing better than discovering the urban art that turns Puerto de la Cruz into an open-air museum: Puerto Street Art.

2.- The legendary Taoro hotel

If suspense stories are your thing, there's nothing cooler than the old Taoro hotel, the place where Agatha Christie stayed during her visit in 1927 and now offers a more than mysterious aspect…

3.- The sea, one more character

We have also thought of those who prefer stories bathed by the sea, be it the auteur genre, catastrophes or romantic drama. For lovers of the waves and the smell of the Atlantic, Puerto de la Cruz offers two wonderful black sand beaches, Martiánez and Playa Jardín, as well as the natural pools of the San Telmo shoals or Lake Martiánez, a complex designed by César Manrique. Your stories will shine with the imposing figure of Teide in the background!

4.- The esplanade lighthouse bathed in a multicolored sky

If the previous ones have not finished convincing you, we have for you a more than obligatory location, the lighthouse on the esplanade bathed by the characteristic multicolored skies and its intense smell of the sea that will bathe any cinematographic story with charm.

5.- The Fisherwoman

Urbanites! You can also make use of its architectural and urban richness to create the most phenomenal cinematographic stories. In addition, a movie is not about Puerto de la Cruz if the Fisherwoman sculpture presiding over the Fishing Pier does not appear. And you know.

6.- Sports as an excuse

Puerto de la Cruz is the ideal place to practice sports in an unbeatable natural environment, outdoors and with a mild temperature all year round. Surfing, hiking, golf, paragliding or diving can be the perfect protagonists of your short film.

7.- Botany also matters

Did the above locations seem uninspiring to you? Don't despair! Explorers and nature lovers have in the Botanical Garden and the gardens of Sitio Liter two essential filming spaces with a lot of magic...

 8.- Phe Festival

It is clear that of all the filming sets that we have mentioned in Puerto de la Cruz, one is missing: Phe Festival. You feel identified with the good vibes of our proposal and you want to make a fashion film, an aftermovie or a music clip with summer as an excuse. We love!

Imagine it, write it down and film it… hush, it's filmed!

Welcome to Phe camping

Going to a summer festival is an experience full of possibilities, and it is an obligation of the organizers encourage the community that is created among the attendees.

Given the forecasts of tourist occupation in the city and with the intention of diversifying the accommodation options, this year's edition incorporates the possibility of camping.

It's official! Phe camping will be in the El Peñon Municipal Stadium Manolo Santaella Sports Center, very close to the festival site, and will open its doors from the 9 to 13 August. This space thus becomes a place of coexistence, enjoyment, rest... a place to make new friends and have fun. And besides, no more paying €50 for accommodation per person per night, here you only get 5€!

With unbeatable conditions, the proposal of Phe Festival It is an urban campsite equipped with all the necessary services and adequate regulations for a pleasant stay: showers, WC, 24-hour security, sports activities, canteen... And with the possibility of accessing the shops of Cross port for any purchase or need –or simply stroll through its authentic surroundings– in just a few minutes. What more could you want?

Get your batteries and Reserve now your place!

Check the regulations of Phe camping here

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As you know, our colleague ‘plug-in’ translator isn’t perfect, but Its good enough to get a rough idea of how cool PHE FESTIVAL is ;)

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