Places to visit in Gran Canaria

Just south of Parque de Santa Catalina is the major traffic thoroughfare of Avenida de Mesa y Lopez. This broad, tree lined, shady avenue plays host to several market stalls and is also a major shop­ping street featuring stores such as El Corte Ingles and many international retailers.

The most colourful shopping in town is to be found on Sunday mornings at the town's large and lively rastro (flea market) held near the port. There are bargains galore and its many African visitors bring a real splash of colour to
the stalls.

Cheap and frequent buses (Canarians call them guaguas, pronounced wah wahs) run along the seafront from Aveni da Maritima down to Triana. It is not only fun to go native bus hopping from one to another, but it is also the most sensible option in this traffic choked city.

Make your first stop Dora mas Parque, a pleasant landscaped park named after Guanche island chieftain. The statue in front of the park re calls the dangerous ancie sport of ravine leaping, practised by local inhabitants in the distant past. At the rear of the park is the splendid colonial style Hotel Casino Sant Catalina.

Adjacent to the park is the Pueblo Canario (Canary Village). This is a
romanticized version of a Canarian village where you can shop for handicrafts
and watch displays of folk dancing and singing. The Pueblo is pretty, very
relaxed and, in spite of its obviously artificial nature, still well worth a visit. The man who conceived it was local artist and designer, Nestor de la Torre (1887 1938). A museum of his exotic art is in the Pueblo.

The bus terrninal is at Triana, one of the older barrios (suburbs) of Las
Palmas. Today it is known for its upmarket shops, and the long, pleasant,
pedestrianized street of Calle Mayor de Triana offers just about everything for both tourists and locals.

History lurks behind every wall and this is a delightful place just to wander around. Christopher Colombus knew these streets and he prayed at the Ermita de San Antonio Abad before setting off on his first Voyage of Discovery to the New World. The present building dates from the 18th
Century. Close by on Calle Colon (Colon is Colombus in Spanish) is the beautiful 15th century Casa de Colon. This elegant house with its charming courtyard was formerly the residence of the island's first governor, and Colombus is said to have stayed here on three occasions. Now an atmospheric museum, it recreates the Age of Discovery with exhibits of navigational instruments, charts, weapons and everyday items of the period.

Around the comer stands the vast Gothic and neo Classic bulk of the Catedral de Santa Ana. While it could never be described as pretty it is certainly impressive, and is best seen by night when flood­lighting softens its harsh, grimy front. For a few euros you may be able to see the treasury with exhibits of ancient religious art and jewellery. Opening times, however, are rather erratic. Facing the cathedral are several green bronze statues of the aboriginal mastiff
dogs after whom the Canary Islands are said to have been named (from the Latin canes).

On the comer of Calle Doctor Chil and Calle Doctor Verneau is the rather self­effacing Museo Canario. The islands' most important collection from Guanche times is stored within its 12 rooms. The highlight is the room of skulls and mummies, depicting the Guanches' fascination with death. The rest of the museum will appeal only to archaeological enthusiasts, and captions throughout are In Spanish.

The southern resorts of Gran Canaria

The southern resorts of San Agustin, Playa del Ingles and Maspalomas (often all lumped together under the collective name of Maspalomas) are linked to Las Palmas and EI Gando International Airport by the fast and featureless autopIsta (motorway).

For some holidaymakers it is rather disconcerting to learn that this three in one resort is the biggest holiday complex in all of Spain, let alone just the Canaries. Each resort does have its own characteristics, however. San Agustin,the first stop off the autopista, is a restrained area of pleasant low­rise apartments, catering for more mature and discerning holidaymakers. Above, the streets are neat and tidy; below, there is a quiet, black sand beach backed by low cliffs.


Playa del Ingles is altogether more robust, as the very name (Beach of the English) might suggest. In winter, though, there are just as many German
visitors here. This is an unashamedly fun and sun resort of high rise hotels,shopping malls and fast food restaurants. It was built several years ago, and the raw concrete edges are being smoothed away by the brilliantly coloured local flora. The modem Ecumenical Church, shaped like the Sydney Opera House,also brings some interest to the skyline. For the less God­fearing the nightlife can be hectic, and at the last count there were some 50 clubs here. The golden beach stretches for 10 featureless miles (16 km) so there is room enough for everyone and all water­sports are practised.

Canary Islands sugar and wine

The Canaries' first major agricultural enterprise was sugar. Sugar canes sprouted easily on the islands, and during the first half of the 16th century a burgeoning industry developed. Boom turned to bust, however, with cheaper sugar production from Brazil and the Antilles (ironically influenced by the Canaries) and the industry died.

Still, trade links had at least been established with both the Old and the New World and wine became the new venture to bolster the economy. Grapes grown in the volcanic soil produced a distinctive, full bodied malmsey wine (malvasia) which became the fashionable drink of aristocratic Europe. Shakespeare and Voltaire, among others, were lavish in their praise, and today's island visitors can still sample the excellent wine in bodegas, restaurants, or even from the supermercado. Old disused wine presses (lagares) may still be seen on hillsides when touring the islands.

By the end of the 18th century the Canaries were a sufficiently important trading point to attract all types of pirates. In 1797 Horatio Nelson attacked Santa Cruz de Tenerife in search of a Spanish treasure ship. The defenders responded vigorously, accounting for the lives of 226 British sailors and the removal of the lower part of Nelson's saluting arm. The Santa Cruzeros clearly had no hard feelings towards the Admiral, however.

Once it was known that the attack had been repelled, a gift of wine was sent out to Nelson (England was, after all, an important wine market) and a street was named Calle de Horacio Nelson in his honour!

By the early 18th century Canarians had become fully Spanish in both outlook and loyalties, and many volunteers joined the Peninsular War (Spaniards call it the War of Independence) which ended in 1814 with the restoration of Ferdinand VII to the Spanish throne.

Economic problems arose in the early 19th century, and the wine industry started to fail. Luckily another single­crop opportunity presented itself in the form of cochineal, a parasite attracted to the opuntia variety of cactlls. The tiny bodies of the female bugs contain a dark red liquid perfect for dyeing, and for 50 years or so, millions of bugs were crushed for the sake of the Canarian economic good.

The Bug Bubble burst with the rise of chemical dyes in the 1870s. With the failure of yet another mono culture, the Spanish government felt constrained to help the Canarian economy. In the mid- 19th Century free port status was granted by royal decree to one port in each of the islands (two in Tenerife). The lowering of duties and trade barriers at a time of considerable shipping expansion had the desired effect, and Santa Cruz de Tenerife and Las Palmas soon became two of the world's busiest ports.

The most recent major crop to come from the Canaries is bananas. The variety is dwarf banana, small and very tasty, and today demand actually outstrips production in some areas. The first exports were made in the 1880s and it has continued to be a mainstay of the islands' economy. Despite some recent problems and concern for the future, it is hoped that bananas will continue to be an important Canarian crop alongside their other staples, tomatoes and potatoes.

The main economy in the Canary Islands today is tourism, but agriculture still makes up a large part of the islands´ income.

The Canary Islands and the Spanish Civil War

The plot that sparked off the Civil War was hatched in the Canary Islands. In
1936 a group of senior officers, discontented with the policies of the Spanish
Republican Government, met in secret in the woods of La Esperanza on Tenerife.
They had come to meet a fellow officer, Francisco Franco, effectively banished to the Canaries by the government, who feared his subversive plotting. From the Canaries Franco took off for North Africa, the launching pad for the insurgent right­wing attack.

Three years later his armies had triumphed in a ruthless struggle that cost hundreds of thousands of Spanish lives. The Canaries were not spared the horrors of the war (mass Republican executions took place in the aptly named Barranco del Infierno, the Gorge of Hell, on Tenerife) but on the whole they prospered during Franco's period of dictatorship, which gave added protection to their free port status.

Visitors to the Canary Islands

The massive growth of tourism in the islands since the 1960s has in some cases
literally refaced the landscape, with brand new resorts such as Playa de las
Americas springing up like Gold Rush boom towns. However, such developments
are mostly the exception and whole swathes of even the more developed islands
are virtually untouched, while Gomera, El Hierro and La Palma are only now
starting to provide more comprehensive tourist facilities.

The infrastructure and transport system of the islands have meanwhile improved drastically, and since 1978 regional autonomy has provided the islanders with their long­desired
break (though they are still linked to some extent) with Madrid.

Despite the rapid changes that tourism has brought to the islands, the Canarians
hope that it will not go the way of sugar, wine or the cochineal bug but will
provide prosperity for years to come.

If you are planning to fly to Gran Canaria, Lanzarote, Fuerteventura, La Palma or Tenerife, you can find some cheap budget airline flights from most major airports in the UK. Once you reach the Canary Islands, you can choose from a vast range of holiday accommodation in Lanzarote, Gran Canaria and Tenerife, and there are plenty of things to see and do during your stay.

About the Canary Islands

Attracting millions of tourists every year, the Canary Islands offer visitors a wealth of things to see and do. With rugged coastlines, mild temperatures and a wide range of superb accommodation, visitors are spoilt for choice when deciding which island to visit.

Lanzarote 2009 is a far cry from the island of yesteryear, which was hardly ever visited. Tourists now flock to the island to make the most of its attractions.

The Canary Islands are seven specks of rock, scattered over 300 miles in the middle of the vast Atlantic Ocean. To the east lies the Sahara, from where the beaches of Fuerteventura have blown; to the north east lies the North of Africa, from where the Guanches, the original Canarians, once came. And to the north lies Spain, from where Conquistadors, colonialists and latter day lawmakers have laid the foundations for modem Canaries life.

From further north still come new Conquistadors wearing shorts and sunglasses. English, German and Scandinavian hordes are now descending on the islands all year round. Their effect on the Canaries is good for the tourism business but hasn't always been so good for the environment. However, while certain areas, notably the southern coasts of Gran Canaria and Tenerife, have capitalized on tourism and capitulated on the wider issues, relative newcomers to tourism, such as
Lanzarote, are progressing more slowly and surely. The smaller islands have yet to make up their minds, but as they all lack commercially exploitable beaches it seems unlikely that they will be experiencing more than a comparative handful of visitors in the near future. And yet, if all the land devoted to tourism was to be added up, it would still occupy only a mere fraction of the islands' total area and natural wealth.

The diversity of landscapes on the islands is quite amazing. While Fuerteventura is truly a desert island wind­swept, sandy and bare, La Palma is lush, verdant and fertile. And if the strikingly beautiful interiors of Tenerife, Gran Canaria and Gomera are Gardens of Eden then the stark badlands of Lanzarote are surely the Valleys of Hell. The Canaries are volcanic islands, and volcanic islands are never dull. La Palma erupted as recently as 1971. On Lanzarote you can not only gaze at the awesome scenery created by earth shattering events that occurred centuries ago, you can also watch your lunch cooking now over the heat of the volcano beneath your feet.

What of the people them­selves? Canarians look Spanish, speak Spanish, are imbued with Spanish culture, and to all intents and purposes are little different from their mainland cousins. They work hard in the fields, pay homage to the virtues of mañana, they enjoy their food, siesta and fiestas and know how to turn a tourist dollar.

So which is the best island for you? It may be a cliché but it is nonetheless true that there is an island for every kind of person. Tenerife is the biggest island in almost every sense. In Mount Teide it features the biggest scenery and it certainly has the greatest number of tourist attractions by day and night. In terms of all round appeal, however, Gran Canaria runs it very close.

Lanzarote information

Lanzarote will delight all those people who are environmentally aware yet enjoy the company of other tourists. The island solves the paradox of modern tourism , and the tourist attractions master­minded by design guru Cesar Manrique and the general ambience of this low rise island are very appealing. Lanzarote accommodation is reasonably priced and tourists can explore the whole island with a wide choice of appealing Lanzarote excursions on offer from most hotels.


Fuerteventura

Fuerteventura tends to polarize opinion: is it an oasis in the middle of an over-complicated world, as some have claimed, or is it simply the desert of first impression? The beaches here are certainly the best in the Canaries, and resorts to suit most tastes are springing up. Watersports aside, though, there are plenty of other attractions to keep visitors entertained.



Gomera El Hierro and La Palma

The lesser known islands of Gomera, El Hierro and La Palma are for the hardier, more inquisitive travellers. There are relatively few comfortable hotels, no international restaurants and best of all, as far as many are concerned, fewer tourists. If you enjoy walking through beautiful mountain scenery for days on end, if you don't mind conversing with the aid of a phrase book in the local village bar and your idea of nightlife is gazing at the North Star, then one of these islands may be your Shangri-La. For most people, though, a day or two away from it all is enough. Island hopping is relatively easy and a few days on an unspoilt island combined with the creature comforts of a major resort offer the best of both worlds. Travel independently, look around the corner from the next hotel and you will soon discover that there is much more to the Canaries than just another winter sun tan.

The history of the Canary Islands

As the clouds cascade down the hillside to reveal the magical summit of Mount Teide, or the sun rises above the eerie moonscape of Lanzarote's Montafias del Fuego, even the most cynical onlooker will realize that the Canaries are a land of legends. The ancient Greeks and Romans called this archipelago the Fortunate Islands, and Homer tells us that blessed ones were sent to the Elysian Fields to enjoy eternal happiness in a land where winter was unknown. Could this have been the Canaries?

The author Plutarch wrote of fertile lands somewhere off the coast of Africa, where the breezes of springtime never stop. His source was the Roman leader Sertorius, who had heard it from an explorer.


Many writers link the lost continent of Atlantis with the Canaries. According to the great philosopher Plato, this rich, happy land, lying somewhere to the west of Gibraltar in the Atlantic Ocean, was destroyed by earthquakes and tidal waves nearly 12,000 years ago. After the cataclysm, only the mountain tops of Atlantis remained above the sea and constituted seven islands. The Canaries perhaps?

From Plato to Jules Verne the possibilities have stirred people's imagination, ranging from the theories of learned academics to the ramblings of wild eccentrics. By now the truth is surely lost in the myths and mists of time. What is undeniable, however, is the magical presence that these seven volcanic sisters possess. When you sight Mount Teide on a distant horizon you will understand the profusion of legends.

If you choose to visit Lanzarote, Tenerife, La Palma or any of the Canary Islands, you will find a wide range of holiday accommodation to choose from. Gran Canaria also offers tourists plenty of attractions and places to visit, and whether you choose to stay in a hotel or an apartment in Tenerife, Lanzarote or Gran Canaria, you won´t be disappointed. The best way to get around any of the Canary Islands is to hire a car directly from the airport.

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10 best things to do in Majorca

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1. Palma de Majorca Cathedral



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2. Dragon´s Caves Majorca Spain



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3. Enjoy the Mallorca beaches



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4. Shop at markets Majorca



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5. Spanish village Majorca



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6. Arabic Baths Palma Majorca Spain



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7. Walking mountains in Mallorca



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8. Valldemossa Monastery Palma Mallorca



For country-lovers, visit the Valldemossa Monastery in Palma de Mallorca, the church next door and the museum. Surrounded by serene and tranquil countryside, this is the perfect place to relax. Chopin was said to have stayed here and you can visit the room he stayed in. Majorca can only be explored properly if you hire a car. You can go where you want when you want with discount car hire in Majorca, and avoid the tourist trails and the crowds if you want some peace and quiet.



9. Restaurants Majorca



Many of the island of Majorca´s top restaurants are situated in the Marina area, including Tristan Restaurant with a clutch of Michelin Stars. If you are looking for something more traditional, you can visit some of the great seafood restaurants around the island. The more touristy resorts have Brit bars, German restaurants and a wide range of cafés and international menus. Make the most of your time away, and explore the best places to eat and drink and hire a car from Majorca Airport.



10. Parc de la Mer Palma de Mallorca



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10 top things to do in Cadiz

Cadiz is the most southern province in Andalusia, and is one of Europe´s oldest cities. Visitors to cadiz can enjoy travelling round the region when they book cheap car hire from Cadiz Airport. Cadiz was also Spain´s main shipping port for hundreds of years.



1. History in Cadiz Spain



If you want to explore the city´s rich history and culture, cheap car hire at Cadiz Airport is available when you pre-book your vehicle before travelling. You can fly into Jerez or Cadiz and airport car hire can be picked up close to the arrivals hall. Visit Cadiz Museum, which offers a rare collection of Roman artefacts and historic paintings by Spanish artists.



2. Beaches and car hire in Cadiz Spain



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3. Holy Art in Cadiz Spain



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4. Cadiz to Morocco by hire car



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5. Sierra de Grazalema Spain



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6. Information Vejer de la Frontera Cadiz Spain



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7. Tourist things to do Cadiz Spain



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8. The Tavira Tower Cadiz Spain



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9. Cadiz Cathedral Spain



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10. Cadiz Restaurants and Bars Spain



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