Gran Canaria, a miniature continent

Each of the seven Canary Islands has its own charm. Fuerteventura and Lanzarote have a landscape barren but beautiful beaches of fine golden sand. In contrast western islands (La Palma, Gomera, Hierro and Tenerife) offer a lot more green landscapes and humid, although devoid of great beaches. Gran Canaria island that gave its name to the Canaries, presents for his part, wet green landscape in the center and north of the island. In contrast, in the south, the coast looms large golden sand beaches such as Playa del Ingles and Maspalomas, even in the capital of the island's northeast, is also the famous Las Canteras beach, the best urban beach world for connoisseurs. Likewise the capital, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria was considered some years ago as the city with the best climate in the world of Syracuse University in the U.S.. Eminently tourist areas of the island are located south of the island: the Municipality of San Bartolome de Tirajana (where Maspalomas, the largest city in Tourism) and the municipality of Mogan, more to the southwest of the island . The port of Mogan is also known as the Venice of the Canaries by the beauty of their houses and small bridges in the form of channels.

In addition the municipality becomes the place in Europe with more sun and has one of the best microclimates in the world. Already in Maspalomas we have the edge of the beach of the same name and the English beach, the famous dunes of Maspalomas, protected ecosystem of great ecological value by the result Maspalomas Pond Nature Park Dunas de Maspalomas. The beaches of Maspalomas and the English come to form really one beach about 6 miles long. Maspalomas is home to hundreds of hotels where you can enjoy its natural beauty as well as modern shopping malls, spas and thalassotherapy complex also favor an emerging health tourism.

In the south-southwest of the island you can find almost all leisure activities for visitors and residents-as-theme and water parks, botanical gardens with hundreds of exotic birds and animals, nightlife centers, shows and performances Live ... Tourism is predominantly German, British and Scandinavian-especially in winter, high season of tourism in the islands. But gradually, domestic tourism is increasingly aware of the excellent tourist island of Gran Canaria. But Gran Canaria is not just sun and beach. One of the greatest contrasts of the island is the cosmopolitan and urban environment of the capital as opposed to inland villages, where time seems to have stopped. The center and north of the island offers the most attractive for the practice of rural tourism. Knowing their beloved inland landscape, predominantly green and moist on the north side of the island, and more arid in the south face. In this area, lush palm groves abound within its large ravines. The trail is also their best scenes here. The peace and quiet of small towns in the interior of the island as Tejeda, Artenara, Teror, where the Basilica del Pino, the patron saint of the island is contagious to all visitors.

A place worth visiting is also the Barranco de Guayadeque where you can sample as in many other parts of the island, the famous Canarian potatoes with mojo and the many varieties of cheese from the islands, and other typical local products . Besides all these natural attractions, Gran Canaria offers a cultural repertoire. The Casa Museo de Colón, where you can learn about the scale was the navigator on the island road to discovery of America, the Botanical Gardens, the historic neighborhoods in the capital d; Vegueta and Triana, with its distinctive colonial architecture . Elder Museum of Science, Arucas Cathedral, the Basilica del Pino named as Teror ... The cultural offer is accepted also by the wide range of hotels on the island, and in addition to dozens of schools and commercial areas such as Triana, Pier, the Sands in the capital's commercial area Mareta Telde and southeast of the island, the Neighborhood Commercial zone. In short, a whole series of attractions that make Gran Canaria a very special island, being faithful to the expression of Lesco Fray, Gran Canaria, a miniature continent.

As a final sample of the reason for this assertion is true also reviewed, it can snow in some winters in the central area of ​​the island (about 1,900 meters high) and only an hour later we can be in the sun on the beach of Maspalomas the side of its famous sand dunes. No doubt this possibility offered by the various microclimates of the island may be unique in the world. Audiovisual Encyclopedia Linthor.com