Guest post: Tenerife’s three best resorts for families
Whether it’s warm sunshine in the middle of winter you’re after or a sub-tropical summer escape suitable for all the family Tenerife certainly does deliver. On The Beach has been offering holidays to Tenerife since it started operating in 1995. Tenerife deals from On The Beach are packed full of family value, including 50,000 free kids places at hotels throughout its network. It saw something in Tenerife early on: it’s ability to offer affordable, fun-filled holidays for families combining beach life, culture and adventure into one beautiful, cost-effective package.
Shearing of the Beasts – “Rapa das Bestas”
The Shearing of the Beasts or “La Rapa das Bestas” as the Spanish call it,  is held every year  in the first week of July in the village of Sabucedo in Spain. It is a 400-year-old traditional festival and the focus of the noble conflict is between man and horse. During the festival, young men from Sabucedo and its surrounding area (Pontevedra in Galicia) meet in the early morning to go in to the mountains. Once there they find wild horses, which they round up and guide into an arena of sorts called the Corral of Sabucedo, where they are sheared and branded.
"Aloitadores" holding the "beast"