Although it is part of Spain, the Canary Islands are much closer to Africa than to Europe.Fuerteventura is only 160 kilometers from the northwest coast of Morocco, close enough to its beaches to be made from Sahara Sand Sand
About
Best period
The weather is good in the Canary Islands throughout the year
Cities with the best climate are Tenerife, Fuerteventura, Lanzarote, El Hierro, Gomera, Gran Canaria and Palma, with a good time at least 11 months a year
Tourist Attractions
One of the most popular tourist attractions in the Canary Islands is this wild park right outside Puerto from Cruz.Combining high standards of good entertainment, the park has one of the largest parrots in the world, a great dolphinarium and a huge aquarium with an underwater tunnel where you can go like sharks and other marine creatures by swimming over your head.A bat of bats;a jungle of gorillas;a huge habitat of penguins;And various exotic animals, including tigers and crocodiles, fill the big park.
In a beautiful valley of banana plantations, this colonial city was designated as a national historical site.The historical neighborhood is full of old houses full of grace, many with wooden balconies carved in an ornamental way.The most remarkable of these architectural stones is Casas de los balconies, built in the 1630s as a house for a rich colonial family.Today, it is a museum and a gallery of traditional Canarian crafts and hand works.To admire the interior balconies, enter the inside of the terrace filled with plants.Iglesia de Nuestra Señora de la Concerecón, a 16th-century baroque church, has two remarkable bell towers.An even larger botanical garden is located near Puerto from Cruz, who was once part of Orotava, a known port for his fishing (his boats still bring the capture to his restaurants).Cesar Manrique, the artist, sculptor and architect of the neighboring Lanzarote island, designed his Jardin beach among volcanic rocks.
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria is a shy coastal city, with an interesting historical inheritance from the Spanish colonial past dating from the fifteenth century.The city was founded in 1478, the first colonial position of Spain in the expansion to the west to the New World.The impressive sixteenth century Santa Ana Cathedral has a Gothic interior, with unusual palm-shaped columns, and in the southern wing is the Diocesan Museum, with a rich collection of religious and gold and silver art.The interesting archaeological and ethnographic collections of the Canary Islands Museum reveal the pre-Hispanic culture of the island.The exhibits in the museum detail its explorations.The house is a wonderful example of canary architecture, with delicate wooden balconies, wonderful terraces and a monumental door.The Néstor Museum exhibits the art works of Néstor Martín-Fernández from Torre, one of the most famous Spanish symbolic painters.The museum presents its paintings, including portraits and landscapes, as well as drawings, sketches and craftwork.The Néstor Museum is part of Pueblo Canario (Canaries Village) built in an idealized "neo-Canarian" style.Jardín Botánico Viera and Clavijo, seven kilometers from Las Palmas, is a spectacular botanical garden, filled with species of native Canary plants and located in a beautiful valley.
At Gomera he rises so steep from Atlantic that it is impractical to build a road around his coast.Crowning the top of the island is the largest pre-glacial forest in the world, protected as Garajonay National Park, and a UNESCO World Heritage List.Seventy percent of the 9,325 acres park is covered by a forest forest, similar to those covering Europe during the tertiary period.These beautiful, green forests host many plants and animals that are indigenous only on this island, and the springs and springs of the island are fed by clouds and fogs that move on the peaks of the park.The land is steep, and the paths through the forests with muscles, open to amazing views, although often vertigo-spiral.The capital of San Sebastián was the place where Christopher Columbus set up his ships before crossing the Atlantic in 1492.
The artist Cesar Manrique is mentioned not only for his works of art and architecture, but for the inspiration and dedication that saved the character of his Lanzarote native island.After a successful career in New York and on the continent, he returned to Lanzarote in 1968, where he started a Lanzarote rescue campaign from the unrestrained tourist development that ruined so many other holiday destinations.He set the island in a new ecological and culturally sustainable path by designing and building a series of attractions that used and celebrated the nature of the island - its volcanic landscapes, rags and growing rocks.
The third highest volcano in the world, 3718 meters high, Teide rises above the small island of Tenerife, the best known in the Canary Islands.Teide National Park, the list of UNESCO World Heritage, includes the whole mountain and a trip inside the huge crater is a highlight of a trip to the Canary Islands.Inside the yoke of the crater there is a caldera - Craterului floor - 19 kilometers in diameter, and a race above this light of the rear is as if you were going to the center of the Earth.This crater is, in fact, what remained of a much larger mountain, which blew its peak three million years ago, collapsing itself.In some places, he left the walls that rise 457 meters above the Crater floor. In the Visita El Portillo, it is a good place to start, if a small excellent museum has interactive exhibits that show how volcanoes form and explore the environment in the crater.Outside, a path leads through a botanical garden, where labels help visitors recognize and identify the native plants they will see in the park.To see the crater above and for wide -scale views, riding Teleferic's Teide cone, a newer volcanic tip, which forms above the gigantic crater, after the original peak of the mountain has slipped.Although the vision from the cable car is remarkable, it cannot fit the experience of crossing the crater floor to see the different remains of the volcanic action: the lava fields;Half of black lava boulders;dunes of lava pebbles;And red, blue, yellow and black volcanic stones.Stopping points at different features have signs in English that describe the flora and fauna and explain the landscape, and the walking routes lead to highlighting.Another excellent way to see the park is on a guided tour.If you want to be taken right at the hotel, the private tour: Teide National Park, Mt.Teide Hike and Cable Car is an easy option.
Known as Isla Bonita (Beautiful Island), Palma is the greener of the Canary Islands.Designated by the UNESCO biosphere reserve, the landscape in the town to Palma varies from the surrounding forests to steep rocks and beaches with black sand.Among its many protected environments are the Caldera de Taburiente National Park, where the volcanic peaks amount to 2,400 meters, and the lava flows descend to the sea.For those who seek the idyllic surroundings, the park has forested areas with streams and waterfalls.Along the rocky coast, small picturesque bays are hidden between the steep hills.
Lanzarote has a much more recent volcanic history than Tenerife - the cataclystic eruptions that covered most of the island in melted lava and volcanic ash took place between 1730 and 1736. Seven years of eruptions buried 11 villages and led the population on the island, which had previously been the Canary Garden.After the rashes ceased, the farmers returned and found innovative ways to cultivate parts of the lands covered by ash.The most dramatic of the volcanic landscapes, including an still active volcano, are now protected as the Timanfaya National Park, cataloged by UNESCO. It must be literally to believe: huge areas of lands not stated by solidified lava whirlpools, cracked in a more melted lava.To see the whole park, go to Islote by Hilario, at the tip of a volcanic cone, where park parking demonstrates the extraordinary heat just below your feet.The dried brush thrown in a depression bursts into the flame, and the water poured down on a pipe erupted back into a hot geyser.At a restaurant here, you can eat chickens that you watched in the heat from the volcano below.There are several volcanic wonders nearby - a crashed crater that form a golf beach, where you can gather semiprecious stones, large caves of volcanic tubes and red dunes of volcanic ash.
Thousands of beaches on the island of Fuerteventura are almost empty and even most of those with well -developed tourist infrastructures are unobserved.The northeast beaches are often quite windy, and Surful on its northern beaches is quite difficult - the delight of surfers, who find here some of the most beautiful waves in Europe.Corralejo, a fishing port on the North Coast, is a surfing center, with rents, surf schools and a powerful surfing and water sports culture.Playa El Poo, which has moderate waves and safe swimming waters, has a number of kiosks that rent equipment for water sports, beach chairs and sun shadows.Also, there are several options along the sand shore in Corralejo almost 16 kilometers. So this is Playa Sotavento (Leeward Beach), which has gained the reputation from Fuerteventura as a paradise for beach lovers.It spreads all over the southern coast of the Jandia Peninsula, at the southern peak of the island.You can choose your paradise from almost 30 kilometers of golden sand, surrounded by turquoise waters.While there are tourist cities and enclaves with all facilities, it is the abundance of unoccupied beach space that attract tourists to these fabulous sands.
The southern coast of Gran Canaria is an almost constant succession of beautiful golden sandy beaches.Between Playa de San Agustin to the west and Puerto de Mogan, the mice will find no less than six major beach resorts.The biggest is Maspalomas, probably the most popular beach of the island, painted with bright shadows and supported by a promenade and a line of restaurants, cafes, shops and fun.It is one of the most lively on the island, at any time of the day or night.At one end there is a reserve protected by huge sand dunes that stretch in layers in the sea. The sands of the sand with wind beaches, where dunes up to 12 meters are constantly carved and displaced by the sea and the wind.You can walk for hours of walking, increasing your desert beauty, but it is more exotic to climb a dromed for a beating walk through this spectacular Dunescape.Part of the beach is a diving area.At Playa Jinámar is a small beach with dark sand and moderate waves.Due to the hot, hot waters, diving are popular on this coast, and an underwater park was designated in Arinaga, north of Playa de San Agustin.There are diving schools at Maspalomas, Playa Ingles and a few other points and you will find facilities for all types of other water sports here, including sailing and windsurfing.
Like those in Gran Canaria, the fabulous beaches of Tenerife stretch along its sunny southern coast.Among the most developed, with a lot of holiday homes, hotels, restaurants and sports options, are the Golden Sands of the Playa de Las Vistas family and the luxury enclaves around Playa del Duque, on Costa Adeje to the west.You will find shopping, luxury spas, golf, windsurfing, jet skiing and other activities.The beach string ends with Puerto de Santiago and Los Gigantes, in a spectacular location under the high rocks.Too wind for a beach or swimming, El Medano is a world -class surfing beach.Further to the west is the beautiful, the little Playa Santiago and the Playa from Arena, protected by the rocky rocks and placed under a lush park.Adeje is a luxury leisure area, with shops, luxury spas, golf, windsurfing, ski jet and other activities.Perhaps the best beach for families is Playa de Las Teresitas, just outside the capital Santa Cruz.Its inclined, golden sands, imported from North Africa, are protected by artificial barrier reefs that make it perfect for children and swimmers, without the heavy surf of other beaches.
This charming city is colonial the UNESCO World Heritage List due to its exceptional cultural heritage.San Cristobal from Laguna, known as La Laguna, is the former capital of all the Canary Islands.The delightful historical city has numerous architectural stones, such as its elaborate cathedral, the Renaissance and neoclassical churches and impressive villas built by the families rich in the 17th and 18th centuries.The parish church of the city, Iglesia de Nuestra at conception, was built in 1496 and was modified in the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries.The sanctuary is simply adorned and has Mudéjar Coffering.Another important church is the seventeenth century Iglesia by Santo Domingo de Guzmán, with Plateresque details on the facade and a mucejar ceiling designed in an ornamental way.The paintings of the artist from the island of Canary Cristóbal Hernández de Quintana decorate the interior.For a historical presentation of the region, go to the Museum of History and Anthropology, hosted in the beautiful Lecaro House, dating from 1593.
This pleasant city on the coast has the most untouched seaside in any of the Canary and still reflects the favorite position it had in the 1500s, when it was one of the three Spanish ports authorized to trade with the New World.Go to Calle o 'Daley cobbled to see the beautiful houses of the rich traders and appreciate the prosperity that this city enjoys in the 17th and 18th centuries. In the sixteenth century Iglesia del Salvador has a beautiful Mudejar ceiling and a painted altar.Ayuntamiento (City Hall) was once the cardinal Palace, built in 1569, and has a carved magnificent ceiling and Renaissance arch.Every five years, the island celebrates its Holy Patron, Virgin of Las Nieves, with five beings, following the same traditions that the inhabitants of the city have enjoyed 1680.
The largest tourist city in Lanzarote is full of Puerto del Carmen, surrounded by more than six kilometers of sandy beaches with calm waters.The old fishing village was transformed into a lively holiday destination, with a wide selection of hotels and restaurants, but for all its tourist facilities, it has not lost a sense of a true Canary city.Those who visit in the first two weeks of August will be delighted by Fiesta from Virgen del Carmen.This religious festival honors the holy patron of the village of fishermen, who is decorated with a colorful muffin for this occasion.The village celebrates with a traditional procession of decorated boats.One of the boats holds the statue of Virgen del Carmen, while other fishing boats follow in a maritime parade.
The capital of Tenerife is a lively and attractive city, marked by some remarkable architectural attractions.The most important of these is the magnificent Auditorio de Tenerife, an opera and a concert hall overlooking, designed by the Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava.Santa Cruz also has other cultural attractions, including the excellent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, where you will find works of Spanish, Flemish and Canary painters.At the fascinating Museum of Nature and Man, you can find out more about the native inhabitants of Tenerife, before the arrival of European colonies and about the volcanic history of the island.Near the museum, lively by Mercado de Nuestra Señora de Africa is a good place to find local crafts.Santa Cruz is the place where you will find the best shopping on Tenerife, as well as the most famous event in Canare, the annual carnival, marked by generous parades, shows and extravagant costumes.
