Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Guide
Take a walk or workout
Nice park to exercise, run on a dirt track or sunbathe. There is a climbing wall to climb. There is also a playground.
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Romersk park
270 Terracera Leon y CastilloNice park to exercise, run on a dirt track or sunbathe. There is a climbing wall to climb. There is also a playground.
Beach
Alcavaneras
Nice beach used by local and next to home.
Spending quality time at the Playa de Las Canteras. It is a great beach for swimming, sun bathing, taking beach walks or having a drink or a meal at the numerous restaurants and various eateries lining alongside the superb beach promenade. It is so brilliant to see enough toilets and showers (completely free of charge) laid throughout the beach
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Las Canteras strand
Spending quality time at the Playa de Las Canteras. It is a great beach for swimming, sun bathing, taking beach walks or having a drink or a meal at the numerous restaurants and various eateries lining alongside the superb beach promenade. It is so brilliant to see enough toilets and showers (completely free of charge) laid throughout the beach
Lugares emblemáticos
Very nice park with plenty of places to sit under the large trees, restaurants, bars and shops all very good value.
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Parque de Santa Catalina
910 Calle General BalmesVery nice park with plenty of places to sit under the large trees, restaurants, bars and shops all very good value.
A nice. historic long street with shops both sides and side streets with bars and restaurants. You can be combined with Vegueta old town.
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Calle Triana
Calle TrianaA nice. historic long street with shops both sides and side streets with bars and restaurants. You can be combined with Vegueta old town.
Barrios
Vegueta is the oldest neighborhood in Las Palmas and the history city center, with historic building and sightseeing highlights. Date from the 15th century. You can walk through the old quarter’s twisting streets and alleyways and see such as Plaza San Antonio Abad, Santa Ana Cathedral, and Museo Colon.
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Vegueta
Vegueta is the oldest neighborhood in Las Palmas and the history city center, with historic building and sightseeing highlights. Date from the 15th century. You can walk through the old quarter’s twisting streets and alleyways and see such as Plaza San Antonio Abad, Santa Ana Cathedral, and Museo Colon.
Following the Playa de las Canteras promenade to the north, you come to La Isleta, a fishing district located at the access to a small peninsula of the same name. This neighborhood, built on steep terrain, is characterized by its narrow streets, old shops and bustling bars. One of the cores of the neighborhood is the Plaza de Manuel Becerra, with the lighthouse on one side and access to port facilities on the other. To the south of the small peninsula is the Castillo de la Luz, the oldest fortification on the island.
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La Isleta
27 C. Faro
Following the Playa de las Canteras promenade to the north, you come to La Isleta, a fishing district located at the access to a small peninsula of the same name. This neighborhood, built on steep terrain, is characterized by its narrow streets, old shops and bustling bars. One of the cores of the neighborhood is the Plaza de Manuel Becerra, with the lighthouse on one side and access to port facilities on the other. To the south of the small peninsula is the Castillo de la Luz, the oldest fortification on the island.
Called the the neighborhood of the pained houses. The striking colors San Juan's and San José's houses is because in its origin the locals used the paint of boats left over on the Port "Muelle de la Luz. From Vegueta to reach the top of the San Juan cliff, it is necessary to meander about 45 alleys.
The first urban center is configured around the square of San Antonio Abad, continuing towards Triana street. The initial constructions are located inside the defensive system, consolidated at the end of the 16th century (1576-1584) with the construction of two walls to the north and another to the south of the city. Until the seventeenth century, the city grew to "inside wall", It means, the population increases and density of buildings but this does not grow in perimeter. The walls were a defense for the city, but in the seventeenth century after the attack and destruction by Van der Does (sailer, military and Dutch pirate June 1599), begins the reconstruction of the city, an important social discrimination, the rich who surround the city (San Juan and Risco de San Nicolás) become important because the "closeness" of the city became in vigilance points, protection, refuge and easy evacuation towards the interior of the island. Therefore, the hill was ocupetaed by “cave dweller”because they taked advantage of the natural caves and later it becomes humble houses and low houses. And in San José, in the part of the population that, in addition to the small attacks suffered by the city of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, took refuge "outside walls", sheltered by the high walls and hills.
San Juan
Called the the neighborhood of the pained houses. The striking colors San Juan's and San José's houses is because in its origin the locals used the paint of boats left over on the Port "Muelle de la Luz. From Vegueta to reach the top of the San Juan cliff, it is necessary to meander about 45 alleys.
The first urban center is configured around the square of San Antonio Abad, continuing towards Triana street. The initial constructions are located inside the defensive system, consolidated at the end of the 16th century (1576-1584) with the construction of two walls to the north and another to the south of the city. Until the seventeenth century, the city grew to "inside wall", It means, the population increases and density of buildings but this does not grow in perimeter. The walls were a defense for the city, but in the seventeenth century after the attack and destruction by Van der Does (sailer, military and Dutch pirate June 1599), begins the reconstruction of the city, an important social discrimination, the rich who surround the city (San Juan and Risco de San Nicolás) become important because the "closeness" of the city became in vigilance points, protection, refuge and easy evacuation towards the interior of the island. Therefore, the hill was ocupetaed by “cave dweller”because they taked advantage of the natural caves and later it becomes humble houses and low houses. And in San José, in the part of the population that, in addition to the small attacks suffered by the city of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, took refuge "outside walls", sheltered by the high walls and hills.
Gastronomía
El Rincón Libanés
23 C. de Pi y MargallCozy restaurant with fantastic lebanese food, fantastic service and good price.
Excellent small restaurant. Service is friendly and helpful, with some great recommendations. The goat cheese salad starter has a good balance of flavors and textures. The octopus is very well prepared, and the goat stew was very good as well. Crema Catalana with Chantilly for dessert hit the spot, and the local honey rum chaser is wonderful! Good price!
Hermanos diaz
14 Calle Gral. Mas de GamindeExcellent small restaurant. Service is friendly and helpful, with some great recommendations. The goat cheese salad starter has a good balance of flavors and textures. The octopus is very well prepared, and the goat stew was very good as well. Crema Catalana with Chantilly for dessert hit the spot, and the local honey rum chaser is wonderful! Good price!
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Surf
If you like surf, here some places and advices:
- If you are a beginer o you wanna lear, the best places is La Cicer, in the end of Las Canteras Beach. It is a friendly surf area and there are several surf center where you can rent a surfboard or hire a surf course. Some of this surf center are Mojosurf or Oceanside.
- If you are intermediate or advanced, of course you can go to La Cicer but you have to go to the north shore of Gran Canaria, near of the city. The best spot are Bañaderos, Los Enanos (San Andrés), El Altillo, Vagabundo or El Circo (San Felipe).