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History of Tenerife


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The name of San Sebastian de Tenerife, is due to a Spanish custom in which to found or conquer a town was given the name of the Holy Church celebrated that day and that day happened to be celebrating the martyrdom of St. Sebastian . Meanwhile the name of Tenerife was because the founder conquistador Captain Francisco Henriquez, a canary would grace with his boss Gonzalo Fernandez de Lugo who was a native of the Canary Islands (Spain) and the then Governor of Santa Marta and do Indian settlement in a town called Villa de San Sebastian de Tenerife, which once had the
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