In 2019 for its part, more than 400,000 people danced to the rhythm of Juan Luis Guerra during the Carnival of the day thus surpassing the record reached in 1987 with Celia Cruz.

[8] The festivities on the streets of Santa Cruz de Tenerife start on the Friday before Carnival with an opening parade, which reaches its height during the night when thousands of people in fancy dresses dance until the early hours of the next day.

The Carnival of Santa Cruz de Tenerife has been celebrated since the time of the earliest European settlement, and possibly earlier.

In practice the ban was not carried out, and a carnival feature was the mixing of the masked upper class with the common people.

During the dictatorships of Miguel Primo de Rivera (1923–1935), and General Franco (1940–1960), the Carnival was known as "Winter holiday" as a ruse to circumvent the ban that had been enacted against it.

Despite the ban, the festival continued to take place in Santa Cruz de Tenerife and Cádiz, Spain.

Artists such as John Galarza, Gurrea, Javier Mariscal, Dokoupil, César Manrique, Cuixart, Pedro González, Fierro, Paco Martinez, Mel Ramos, Enrique Gonzalez, Maribel Nazca, Elena Lecuona and many others have contributed to their designs.

In January 2006 a group of neighbors in Santa Cruz de Tenerife filed a complaint with the Board of Administrative Disputes, supported by eight community buildings and ten residents of the area known as the "ring" (the middle of the festivities).

Finally, according to the ruling "the generic request for suspension of the carnival is in no way excessive and could be subject to a full assessment.

It is obvious that the carnival is composed of a plurality of events, the adequacy of social discomfort and noise both have separate ratings according to the social reality of the time that the rules must be applied for, as the public prosecutor warns, not all such actions have the same capacity to undermine fundamental rights and therefore that in no way justifies the request for suspension of Carnival because of the violation of fundamental rights."

The order added that the neighbors broke the principle of good faith by failing to notify the Town Hall before the Carnival and submit a comprehensive plan, leaving the door open to further demands.

However, the TSJC said "in no case" noise at night could exceed 55 decibels and that the city should take the necessary steps to control it while moving (if necessary) "the evening activities to residential areas".

On Monday, 12 February 2007, after negotiation with both parties, the court declared inadmissible the suspension of acts of Carnival in the streets.

On 14 February 2007 the Parliament of the Canary Islands, in an extraordinary meeting, unanimously approved a new law lifting environmental-noise regulations during certain dates at the discretion of municipalities.

[10] A jury composed of members of the municipal corporation and celebrities chooses the queen; there is also a vote via SMS (short messaging service).

The Catholic Church is mocked, with participants dressed as popes, bishops and nuns imitating blessings and other religious rites (often accompanied by sexual objects).

The weekend puts an end to "Don Carnal" until the next year and whose role, especially on Saturday, has grown in recent decades to the point of having internationally renowned entertainment comparable to the Monday of Carnival.

To preside over that year's stage whose theme was the world of comics, a monumental statue of a patriotic superhero from the island of Tenerife was created by the designer Guillermo Afonso, inspired by Captain America.

The Casa del Carnaval or Carnival House is a museum dedicated to this emblematic party located in Santa Cruz de Tenerife and inaugurated in 2017.