Casa de Colón
History museum in the Vegueta old town, Las Palmas.
A museum and historic house in the Vegueta district of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, dedicated to the history of the Canaries and their links with the Americas. It has thirteen permanent exhibition rooms, a library and a documentation centre, in an emblematic building of the capital's old town.
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