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History museum in the Vegueta old town, Las Palmas.
Birthplace of novelist Benito Pérez Galdós in the Triana district of Las Palmas, now a house-museum with guided visits and free entry.
Archaeological museum in Vegueta with the largest collection on the pre-Hispanic Guanche culture of the Canaries.
Museum carved into the rock explaining the life of the native Canarians in the spectacular Barranco de Guayadeque.
Interactive science and technology museum in Parque Santa Catalina, with a digital planetarium and 3D cinema.
Aboriginal site with the famous cave of geometric paintings.
Open-air recreation of a Canary Island settlement from before the conquest, in the municipality of San Bartolomé de Tirajana, overlooking the Barranco de Fataga. More than a hundred life-size figures spread scenes of daily life across the site: the home, grain, livestock, healing, justice and burial rites. A small archaeological room rounds off the route and helps place what stands outside. Since the site is open ground with little shade, water, a hat and sun protection are worth packing.
A pre-Hispanic archaeological site in Telde, carved by hand into the rock at around 300 metres above sea level. The main cave opens to the outside through four aligned doorways, which give the site its name. At the summer solstice the rising sun enters through the second doorway and lights the back wall.
Ethnographic museum set inside genuine cave dwellings carved into volcanic tuff, in Artenara, the highest municipality of Gran Canaria.
A pre-Hispanic necropolis on volcanic rock in Agaete, Gran Canaria, with hundreds of burial mounds left by the ancient Canarians.
Historic rum distillery founded in 1884 in Arucas, with visitable cellars where barrels signed by international figures are aged.
An Aboriginal communal granary with more than 300 silos carved into the rock in Santa María de Guía, in use until the European conquest of the 15th century.
Free Cabildo house-museum in Telde, Gran Canaria, devoted to the León y Castillo brothers. A fine stop to explore 19th-century Canarian history amid period furniture and art.
A 1541 stone fortress on La Isleta in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, now a museum showing work by sculptor Martín Chirino. One of the capital's best-loved historic landmarks.
Leading modern-art museum of the Canaries, in a historic Vegueta building.
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