Movies Filmed in The Park and Curiosities
- Brian May wrote the Queen song "Tie Your Mother Down" at the Observatorio del Teide at Izana (altitude of 7,770 feet), in the autumn of 1971, while working on his grad thesis.
- This dramatic scenery has been featured in films such as One Million Years B.C. (1966) and Clash of the Titans (2010).
- The Raquel Welch poster of One Million Years B.C. that plays a significant role in the 1994 film The Shawshank Redemption was taken at the Teide.
- On December 8, 2008 following an initiative from the Jewish community of the Canary Islands, an Israeli flag was placed near the summit of Mount Teide.
- The park is a small chapel dedicated to the Virgen de las Nieves which is the highest Christian church in Spain.
- Tenerife was the place where L. Ron Hubbard (founder of the Church of Scientology) called picked "OT-III materials", according to this doctrine one of the volcanoes which were cast the "thetans" 75 million years ago is the Teide together with other volcanoes in the world, mainly from Hawaii.
- On 24 June 1989 the radio Espacio en Blanco of the Radiocadena Española called a "UFO Alert" in the Teide National Park in order to achieve some kind of contact with extraterrestrials. This event was attended by about forty thousand people.
- On January 8, 1998, were arrested members of a cult led by German psychologist called, Heide Fittkau Garthe, who tried, with members of his sect, performing a ritual suicide in the Teide.
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