Palmetum, Santa Cruz
Updated 2 August 2026The Palmetum is a 12-hectare (120,000 m²) botanical garden built on a former municipal landfill in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, closed in 1983, whose recovery project began in 1995 and opened to the public in 2014, obtaining official recognition as a botanical garden in 2015. It specializes in palms, with about 600 species of Arecaceae —presented as the largest palm collection in Europe— and a total of more than 1,800 plant taxa. The route ascends an artificial hill and is organized into biogeographic regions that gather flora from the Caribbean, Central and South America, Madagascar, Africa, Asia, Australia, Hawaii, New Caledonia, the Mascarene Islands, and the Canary Islands, among others.
From the top, panoramic views of the port and the ocean can be enjoyed. Today, it is an international benchmark for environmental regeneration, transforming a degraded space into a garden of high botanical and landscape value.
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