Naomi Cabrera, aged 22, celebrates after being elected the Santa Cruz de Tenerife Carnival Queen during a contest gala in Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain. She wears a feathered creation called ...

The beautiful Spanish queens of the Carnival of Santa Cruz de Tenerife wear some of the world's most elaborate costumes every year for the annual Carnival Queen election gala. See photos of all ...

Women wearing huge, elaborate costumes battled it out to become Queen of the 2018 Santa Cruz de Tenerife carnival in the Canary Islands. The theme for this year's carnival was La Fantasia – or ...

The Carnival of Santa Cruz de Tenerife brings thousands of revellers every year . Santa Cruz is the closest European equivalent to the Brazilian Carnival from Rio Janeiro. (Photo by Pablo Blazquez ...

But when it comes time to party, they swap practicality for bold and elaborate costumes and masks to celebrate The Carnival of Santa Cruz de Tenerife. This annual festival is second in grandeur ...

But we’re heading north, to the island’s capital Santa Cruz de Tenerife, a city in the throes of its annual carnival – after Rio, the second-biggest on the planet. We arrive a good few hours ...

Every year Santa Cruz de Tenerife, a city in Spain’s Canary Islands, hosts a carnival to rival any on the planet. Every year Santa Cruz de Tenerife, a city in Spain’s Canary Islands ...

Santa Cruz de Tenerife is not a tourist town — citizens live and work here, and it may be a bit harder to find English speakers here than in the island's southwest resorts. That said ...