After a long wait, the rehabilitation of the emblematic Hotel Taoroa property that achieved worldwide fame for being the first luxury property in Spain, will begin next month.
This is confirmed to this newspaper by the insular president, Pedro Martín, when consulting him about the progress of the work and contacting the company Tropical Turística Canaria (TTC), winner of the public tender called in 2019 by the Cabildo de Tenerife to improve this emblematic property , which for decades has been immersed in neglect.
The Taoro was inaugurated in 1890 and closed in 1975. Until 2006, the building was used as a casino, but in July of that year it was moved to the Lago Martiánez area with the aim of making the leisure offer more accessible to its users. . However, going to the place was a must for tourists who came to the municipality, attracted by its gardens and its majestic architecture, until it fell into neglect and carelessness that still persists and hopes to be resolved in the coming months. 48 years after its closure.
Up to four times its lease and rehabilitation were unsuccessfully put out to public tender. Finally, in May 2019, the Island Corporation, owner of the property, managed to award them to Tropical Turística Canaria (TTC).
At the beginning of 2020, movements began in the exteriors and gardens of the building that, shortly after, were paralyzed, due to the health alert situation due to COVID-19 and the company requested an extension and a different schedule from the one initially presented when He was awarded the contract due to the economic situation, which was granted.
For Pedro Martín, “improving the tourist offer involves qualifying it and, without a doubt, the Taoro hotel is a reference that marks a before and after in the tourist history of Tenerife”.
In his opinion, the Taoro “not only entails the improvement of an emblematic hotel, but of an entire environment that has decided to recover and invest to regenerate this tourist space, which, without a doubt, represents a boost for the tourism sector of the city and the island.
Characters of Spanish royalty stayed in the building, such as Alfonso XIII; the Duke of Windsor, Edward VIII; the writer Agatha Christie, and the first Chancellor of the Federal Republic of Germany, Konrad Adenauer.
