Casa Museo de Pérez Galdós (Calle Cano 6, Las Palmas) – this is the house where Benito Pérez Galdós (the Canary Islands’ most famous writer) was born in 1843. Visitors to this museum will come across his upstairs rooms (including his study area and exhibits of his personal effects). Inside this museum are many originals […]
Alto de Garajonay (La Palmita, 38869 Agulo) — Gara and Jonay, so the myth goes, were the Canarian version of Romeo and Juliet. Gara was from the town of Agulo (La Gomera) and Jonay from the neighboring island of Tenerife. When their parents forbade them to see each other again, they ran away but were […]
Casa de los Coroneles (La Oliva province) – as its name suggests, this stately house was the one-time home of the island’s governing colonel from the 18th century (Col. Melchor de Cabrera Bethencourt – a likely descendant of Fuerteventura’s original founder). The fact that this structure has windows (at a time when most local homes […]
With exceptional natural values, it is the municipality of greatest altitude in Tenerife and in Spain. The dwellers enjoy the abundant waters of exquisite quality that cascade down from the summits. There are several streams that spring from the neighbouring high sierras, these waters unfortunately cannot be well taken advantage of due to the sharp […]
The present day San Cristóbal de La Laguna is a budding municipality, notable for its university and academic projection. The intimacy of its plazas, the palm trees bordering its walks, the lagoon plains, the cold climate and the bustling heat of the student environment are characteristic.The active working population is employed mostly in the services […]
This is the municipality with the largest surface area on the Island, since it is home to most of the Teide National Park, considered a unique natural space in Spain, opening into the sea, through the valley of the same name. The main economic activity is agriculture, employing a fifth of the active population, with […]
Playa de Las Americas Beach is a tourist Mecca built at the end of the 1960’s. It is adjacent to Los Christianos and the Adeje Coast locally know as Costa Adeje. Virtually free from the Canarian culture, it is a place where many people from northern Europe frequent throughout the year (higher in winter) due […]
A lot has been written about Teide and it could not be otherwise, because there are sufficient reasons to support this statement. This is not just any volcano, if we take into consideration that Teide and Las Cañadas are more than 100 000 years old. However, the attractions of its solid structure began to multiply […]
The name suits to a tee, because this is a cliff with challenging rocky walls climbing steeply with the same beauty as they penetrate into the bottom of the ocean plunging in the heart of the deep like stakes that have been solidified over the years.This unequal rocky wall is from 500 to 800 meters […]
Located on the opposite coast of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, its agreeable climate year round, together with the great variety and striking beauty of its coastal and agricultural landscapes, have made it one of the most important tourist centres on the island and of all Spain, even though it is the municipality of less surface […]