Día de la Cruz fireworks by Hermanos Toste - one of the best displays you'll ever see

[aspasia]

 Although not a Tenerife-wide public holiday, a fiesta on 3 May in Los Realejos draws people from around the island and even further afield. The Exaltación de la Santa Cruz (Día de la Cruz) is known for providing the best fireworks display in Tenerife, and indeed, one of the ten best in the whole of Spain.

The fiesta is famous for the participation of the Hermanos Toste in a competition between two streets in Los Realejos for the best firework display, a tradition that started, incredibly, in 1770. The Hermanos Toste themselves date back to 1788 and have a factory in Los Realejos, the only one in the Canaries that makes fireworks. This year's display on Thursday, they say, will bring new surprises in light, colour and sound ... which was deafening when I went a few years ago! This short video will hopefully give some idea of what to expect.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMYH_nF3PBQ&feature=player_embedded

[aspasia]

Los Realejos Ayuntamiento will be broadcasting the display live through a stream on its website HERE.

[Nova]

Now that sounds more fun than a coach trip! 

[aspasia]

Yes, I think I'll watch it ... with the sound turned down .....   

[aspasia]

On right now, HERE 

[aspasia]

Still going on ... or "off" rather!  ... getting bored now ..... 

[aspasia]

seems to have finished now ... that's 40 minutes or so ... and I think that's the first half of the competition!!

edit: no, still going on ... 

[Nova]

Still going on ... or "off" rather!  ... getting bored now ..... 

I was thinking the same thing... 

seems to have finished now ... that's 40 minutes or so ... and I think that's the first half of the competition!!

edit: oops no, still going on .... 

No!  There can't possibly be more!!!  I may have to abort..... 

[Nova]

Are we nearly there yet? 

They're pretty, but our forum's prettier   

[aspasia]

I think there's far more ... but I've aborted. And this time, we can just turn it off rather than wait for everyone else to be ready to go home around 1am with a walk uphill and a 2 hour bus journey ahead of us ... and without having been deafened and had one's nose assaulted by the smell of the gunpowder ...