Also called Continent in Miniature for the presence on the territory of launchings micro climates, the tropical island of Gran Canaria possesses some very beautiful and characteristic panoramas. The situated part to south mostly results frequented by the tourists for the favorable climate to the exposure of the sun with smaller rainy precipitations in comparison to the north. In the southern part it exists a great naturalistic and exotic park, Palmitos Park as many tourist villages. The bathing zones provided of beaches start in the oriental and central part of the southern coast, in the area of Maspalomas that includes the cities St. Agustín, Playa of the Inglés. The Dunes of Maspalomas, constituted by sand of the Sahara, they are found between Playa of the Inglés and Maspalomas. Another tourist attraction is the Lighthouse of Maspalomas.
The urban centers of Gran Canaria as Playa of the Inglés and Maspalomas are very popular destinations for tourists coming from the whole world, attracted by the tropical climate, particularly way, European, above all British and Germans. For the fun and the relaxation a lot of discos, cafe, restaurants and commercial activity exist, in particolar way, very vivacious it is the nighttime life inside the commercial center Yumbo Centrum. Particularly we remember a very famous beach and frequented by the tourists of the whole world it is
the gilded beach of dunes of the desert: Dunes of Maspalomas, next to the beach of Playa of the Inglés.
To arrive on the island in airplane the airport international
Gran Canaria
exists, called in Spanish Aeropuerto de Gran Canaria, result I air her greater station of the islands Canay, introduces with two footsteps of landing, that allow around 55 take-offs every time. Frequent I am also the flights of the Binter Canarias Airlines that colleague the other islands and the continent.
The airport is situated to 18 kms from the city of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, and to 25 km from the tourist destinations of the south of the island. Opened April 7 th 1930 after king Alfonso XIII signed the action of passage from military use to civil, the most greater has become some islands Canarie and the fifth airport of Spain for number of transported passengers.
Lived in passed by the aboriginal native of the Guancheses since the 3000 a.C., Gran Canaria had called Tamarán, subsequently vindicated from Spain during the XV century.
Geographically the isolates of Gran Canaria it results situated in the Atlantic ocean to 210 km from the coast western north of Africa and it politically belongs to Spain. The volcanic surface of Gran Canaria extends him for around 1560 square kilometers with a maximum altitude of 1.949 meters the Pico de las Nieves. It possesses a round form with a diameter of around 50 km. The Unesco has declared Reserve of the biosphere around 50% of the territory of the island of Gran Canaria.
As it regards the climate of Gran Canaria the annual middle temperatures that oscillate between the 18° and the 25°C, it generally enjoys of a spring climate the whole year, recognized by the international scientific community as one of the best of the world. A deepened American study considers Las Palmas as one of the cities with the best climate of the world. The miracle of this phenomenon he produces thanks to the Aliseis, dampness and coolness, coming from the anticyclone of the Azzorres.
In the coastal zones, especially in the southern slope of the island, the climate is almost all the dry and sunny year. To greater altitude, instead, the influence of the sea is smaller and the mountains hold back the clouds provoking great thermal differences among moderate zones to the center, valleys and subtropical woods and taller zones, where the temperature can record the 0 degrees.
The local administration of the island of Gran Canaria is separated in 21 town hall and the general population of 829.500 inhabitants in 2008, of which 377.000 residents in the capital Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Las Palmas de Gran Canaria is the capital of the autonomous community of the Islands Canarie and also capital of the province of Las Palmas.
Numerous hotels and present hotel complexes in the island of Gran Canarias have services nursery with personal specialized and of activity recreational specifications to make to amuse the small ones, directed by animators that the relaxation they guarantee during the permanence in the hotel or in the bathing establishment. As it regards the to eat, besides the menù baby offered by the hotel complexes, in the island the types of fast foods are almost all found that so much the like they more young people.
For the lovers of the bathing they are present numerous mended beaches and sure, endowed with ideal games for a child, because can have a good time him for all through the stay. As aquatic parks are present besides specific centers, thematic and moon park, salt games, local for the leisure time, local internet and public parks with numerous funs able to satisfy every tourist.
In the local gastronomy in evidence original recipes with meat, fish, fruit and vegetable. Among the typical dishes we remember the most greater as the called appetizers enyesques, the papases arrugadas potatoes novellas boiled under salt, the "carajacas" marinated fegatelli or the ropa vieja tid bit of steer. Among the first dishes we remember, the warm de pescado comic strip of fish and the potaje de soaked berros of crescione, among the seconds, both of meat as the conejo en salmorejo marinated rabbit, both of fish as the vieja sancochada fish parrot I boil. The sweets typical of Gran Canarias, are the bienmesabe it cremates of almonds and honey and the huevoses massive structure yolks of egg beaten with syrup of sugar and cinnamon. Among the drinks the good wines d.o.c. are recommended: the "Gran Canaria" and the "Mountain Lentiscal."
Among the products typical of the island of Gran Canaria, in evidence the exotic fruit as papaya, mango or the platan the famous tropical bananas, with great variety of tropical juices of fruit and so many other products as the honey of palm, the jam of cactus, the cream of tropical bananas canary. Characteristic and interesting it is the aloe true, a native tropical fat plant of the Canaries, considered sacred in passed by the aboriginal native Guanci. The aloe true, it grows in these islands in abundance and it possesses different therapeutic ownerships, the juice is used to drink as energetic, reconstituent, and it is also against the ache of stomach, being very curative, in fact gel is used for recovering scorching and to take care of muscular pains in cream, is used also for the beauty of face and body.
Finally among the principal monuments to be seen to Gran Canaria we remember the Cueva pintada to Gáldar and the Cenobio de Saint Valerón María de Guía de Gran Canaria, the Catedral de Saint Ana that is found de to Las Palmas Gran Canaria, the Iglesia de San Juan Bautista to Arucas and the Basílica de the Pino's Nuestra Señora, patrona of the diocese of the Islands Canarie and of the island, that is found to Teror. In the historical district of Vegueta to Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, the Museum Canario, the hermitage of Sant'Antonio Abate and the House are found Museum of Cristoforo Colombo.
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