Expansión urbana y fiscalidad en Santa Cruz de Tenerife (1880-1914)

Around 1850, a fiscal estate was created that made it possible to start providing essential goods and services to Santa Cruz de Tenerife, which had acquired the status of provincial capital in 1833. This was accompanied and favored by an improvement in its economic activities, mainly from commerce, the port, and associated industries, at the same time that favored a process of urban modernization through the installation of public lighting, drinking water supply, housing construction, etc. Although its achievements were mainly due to a neighborhood that accepted the increasing collection pressure of the local treasury to finance those services, including the use of credit by the municipality. But the beginning of the Great War started a turnaround.