Los Abrigos is a small fishing village on Tenerife's south coast, and for ten days from late August into early September it throws the kind of fiesta that still belongs to the people who live there. It opens with a Tapas y Vinos night, where you wander the seafront sampling small plates and local wine, and runs through the Romería Barquera, an afternoon of folk music, traditional dress and dancing in the street.
The evenings bring verbenas, open-air dances that carry on late under the lights. The moment everyone waits for is the maritime procession: the images of San Blas and the Virgen del Carmen are carried down to the harbour and taken out to sea by boat, with the local fishing fleet following behind. It's free, it's genuinely local, and visitors are made welcome.
