Agatha Christie is one of the writers with the most books sold, their readers are counted by millions, generations and languages. While his works and the character of Hercules Poirot They are worldwide, some aspects of the author’s life are not so much, and one of her episodes linked her to Spain.
Agatha Christie’s trip in Tenerife
At the most complicated moment of his life, in which he was going through the divorce of his first marriage and the recent death of his mother, Agatha Christie He took refuge in the Canary Islands with his daughter and his secretaryin search of recovering itself, after having starred in a strange disappearance.
And just when she learned of her husband’s infidelity, the colonel Archibald Christiethe writer disappeared without a trace to appear a time later in a hotel, without remembering anything. This traumatic episode caused him to receive psychiatric treatment and as a rest he chose the Canary Islands.
There were three months that one of the written crime teachers spent in the Canary Islands, first landing in Tenerife, in 1927. There he would take refuge in Puerto de la Cruzwhere he enjoyed surfing, one of his great passions, and that at that time was unusual among Western women.
The famous writer stayed in the Taoro Hotelalready missing, and that was common among the high European society of the twentieth century in Puerto de la Cruz. From his time in the town of Tenerife there are some footprints that have erected in as a tribute, the most outstanding stairs of the San Amaro Paseo.
The stairs of Agatha Christie in Puerto de la Cruz
On the aforementioned walk are some stairs where each step is painted in a color and you can read each of the titles of The works of Agatha Christie. This is not only a tribute to the writer for her time in the town, but also a place from which you can see interesting views of the volcanic black sand beach that characterizes Puerto de la Cruz, so it is worth climbing each of them.
It is not the only footprint of Agatha Christie in Tenerife, but in the same town we find the first street that was granted, in the one known as Los Cipreses Walkwhich she makes numerous references in her work The enigmatic Mr. Quinn which he published in 1930, specifically in the chapter El Man del Mar. In Puerto de la Cruz, in addition, Agatha Christie would end The mystery of the blue traina novel that had incomplete and that could end when he recovered chemically.
But the tribute of Puerto de la Cruz, in Tenerife, also reaches the literary scope, by celebrating the Agatha Christie International Festivalsince 2007, and that brings together British and Spanish authors experts in the author or specialized in black novel or mysteries, to celebrate the writer and the connection of the island with the United Kingdom.
#peculiar #tribute #Agatha #Christie #find #island #Tenerife
