Holidays To Tenerife The Pyramids Of Guimar

In Tenerife, the biggest island in the Canaries in the Atlantic Ocean, is a small town called Guimar. Part of the Santa Cruz de Tenerife province, it is located at the southeast sector of Tenerife. It can be reached through the new TF1 Motorway superhighway. Furthermore, it is linked the older highway that also connects Arona and Santa Cruz City.

What is so unusual about this town that makes it an excellent place to visit when spending holidays to Tenerife? Well, Guimar, especially the district of Chacona, is the area where the enegmatic Pyramids of Guimar. Distinct from the pyramids of Egypt, the Pyramids of Guimar is a collection of six rectangular terraced structures that are made out of lava stone without the use of a binding agent like People said that these structures are utilized for agriculture in the ancient times. But recent excavations and studies have proved that they might be more than just structures for agriculture.

The Pyramids of Guimar were first earnestly researched by Thor Heyerdahl, a famous and publisher. He thought that due to the fact the Guimar pyramids posses a similar architecture to the pyramids in pre-Columbian Mesoamerica, the Guimar pyramids may be a ceremonial area.

After a year, Canary Institute of Astrophysics researchers Juan Antonio Belmonte Aviles, Antonio Aparicio Juan, and Cesar Esteban Lopez made a separate study. They found out that the long sides of a number of the terraced pyramids pointed to the direction of the earth's solstices. They also found out that by standing on the peak of biggest pyramid during the day during the summer solstice, one may see a sunset twice on the same day. A person standing on the pyramid's top can see the sun set behind a mountain top, goes out from the side of that mountain, then sets a second time behind a nearby mountain. Other pyramids have stairs that point to the direction where the sun goes up on both solstices. So they speculated that the structures were old instruments of some kind for astronomical observation and study.

Then between 1991 and 1998, excavations near the structures revealed thousand-year old remnants of potteries. So they believed that the pyramids were once old markets where merchants offer their wares.

What were these pyramids actually for? As of now, their purpose remains a mystery.

Don't fail to see the Pyramids of Guimar in Tenerife when spending cheap holidays to Spain.