Holidays to Tenerife Head Out to Guimar for an Unusual Treat
In Tenerife, the biggest island in the Canaries in the Atlantic Ocean, is a charming town called Guimar. Part of the Santa Cruz de Tenerife province, it is located at the southeastern area of Tenerife. One can reach Guimar through the new TF1 Motorway superhighway. Furthermore, it is connected with the older highway that also connects Arona and Santa Cruz City.
What is so special about Guimar that makes it a great destination when enjoying holidays to Tenerife? Well, Guimar, particularly in the district of Chacona, is the spot where the mystifying Pyramids of Guimar. Not like the pyramids of Egypt, the Pyramids of Guimar is a variety of six rectangular terraced structures that are made out of lava stone without the use of a binding agent like Locals said that these pyramids are used for agriculture thousands of years ago. Yet modern excavations and studies have proved that they might be more than just structures for agriculture.
The Pyramids of Guimar were first earnestly studied by Thor Heyerdahl, a famous and publisher. He guessed that due to the fact the Guimar pyramids have a like architecture to the pyramids in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, the Guimar pyramids may be a ceremonial area.
After a year, Canary Institute of Astrophysics archaeologists Juan Antonio Belmonte Aviles, Antonio Aparicio Juan, and Cesar Esteban Lopez conducted another research. They noticed that the longer sides of a number of the terraced pyramids face the direction of the planet’s solstices. They also noticed that by setting foot on the peak of biggest pyramid at daytime during the summer solstice, one can see a sunset twice on the same day. An individual standing on the pyramid’s top can see the sun go down behind a mountain peak, emerges from the side of that mountain, then goes down again behind a nearby mountain. Other pyramids feature stairs that point to the place where the sun goes up on both solstices. So they thought that the structures were ancient instruments of some kind for astronomical observation and study.
Then between 1991 and 1998, excavations just near the structures revealed thousand-year old remnants of potteries. So they believed that the pyramids were once ancient markets where hawkers offer their items.
What were these pyramids really for? As of now, no one knows.
Don’t fail to see for yourself the Pyramids of Guimar in Tenerife when enjoying cheap holidays to Spain.
