The Carnival of Santa Cruz de Tenerife is the most international festive event of the capital of Tenerife, a sign of identity and the thread that binds a multidisciplinary artistic tradition that passes from generation to generation.

The people of Santa Cruz have been in charge of writing the pages of its Carnival from almost the first lines of its history, and despite the vicissitudes of each moment, the island calendar has always reserved an appointment with the greatest cultural and human legacy of the island.

An associative movement of almost 10,000 people makes possible every year a celebration that in 1980 was declared a Festival of International Tourist Interest. The Carnival of Santa Cruz de Tenerife is an event of global projection that in 1987 inscribed its name in the Guinness Book of Records with the largest public participation in a dance held in an open place: Celia Cruz and more than 200 thousand peoplemade it possible.