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The Museo del Pescador occupies the premises of the Cofradía de Pescadores Gran Poder de Dios, on calle Las Lonjas in Puerto de la Cruz, beside the fishing quay. Its Casa Museo brings together a large collection of ship models, ranging from traditional Canarian rowing boats and faluas, tuna vessels and purse seiners to schooners, sail training ships, steamers and the old island mail boats, alongside working objects such as an old scale.
The Centro de Arte La Regenta is the exhibition space of the Government of the Canary Islands in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Founded in 1987, it is a public institution devoted to the dissemination of contemporary art. Alongside its exhibition programme it runs a Visual Arts Production Space, a documentation centre, lecture cycles and workshops for education and cultural action.
The Museo de La Zafra, a museum of tomato growing and rural life in Vecindario, gathers the most important aspects of the recent history of Santa Lucía de Tirajana: the cultivation and packing of tomatoes in the lower part of the municipality. The museum covers more than 4,000 square metres arranged in twelve rooms that take the visitor through production, packing, transport and export.
The Centro de Interpretación del Aloe Vera in Yaiza is one of three such centres that Aloe Plus Lanzarote runs on Lanzarote, alongside those in Punta Mujeres and Arrieta. Staff accompany visitors along the route and explain why the island's climate and volcanic soils favour a high quality aloe, how an aloe leaf is cut properly and how its fresh gel can be used at home. Guided tours are offered in several languages.
The Museo de la Seda Las Hilanderas, a silk museum and working workshop on Calle Manuel Taño in El Paso, La Palma, occupies a historic house. It holds a collection of pieces that sums up the Ruta de la Seda, and in the same rooms the craftswomen work in front of visitors using very old methods and tools, just as in the sixteenth century. The workshop describes itself as the only one in the Canaries and the last in Europe to keep the process entirely by hand.
Museo del Puro Palmero stands in the Parque de Los Álamos, in San Pedro, within the municipality of Breña Alta on La Palma. It is devoted to the puro palmero, the cigar-making tradition preserved on the island, and frames the visit as a journey from the distant past to the present, with attention to the tobacco harvest and to the handmade production of the cigar.
The Casa-Museo Antonio Padrón. Centro de Arte Indigenista occupies, in Gáldar, the painter's family house and the pavilion that served as his studio, where his work was left untouched after his death. It belongs to the museum network of the Cabildo de Gran Canaria, which conserves, researches and makes known that painting and its cultural setting. The staircase joining the two floors holds two murals by the artist, Niños haciendo cometas and Camellos de la escalera.
The Museo de La Fortaleza, at La Sorrueda in Santa Lucía de Tirajana, is the visitor centre for the archaeological area of La Fortaleza, a pre-Hispanic settlement in the same municipality. Its main hall combines traditional museography with technology and hyperrealistic scenography, and the route continues through a central courtyard, an audiovisual room and a terrace viewpoint that looks out over the setting of the excavation.
The Roque de los Muchachos Visitor Centre stands at 2,426 metres above sea level in the municipality of Garafía, beside the international astrophysics observatories on the highest point of La Palma. It is laid out as four areas: a welcome room with reception, auditorium, shop and an interactive table on the entrails of the telescopes, plus three exhibition rooms devoted to the sky, to the universe and to the Garafía area.
The Casa Museo Miguel de Unamuno occupies the house that took in the writer when he reached Fuerteventura in 1924, banished by the Rivera dictatorship. It stands in the centre of the old Puerto Cabras, today Puerto del Rosario, and keeps the feel of a bourgeois home of the last century, with fine wood, heavy drapes and period devices such as a typewriter and a phonograph.
The Museo Diocesano de Arte Sacro of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria is housed in the rooms that open onto the Patio de los Naranjos of the Catedral de Canarias. It shows part of the artistic heritage gathered by the cathedral, including work by the sculptor Luján Pérez and the painter Juan de Miranda alongside pieces of national and international standing. The cathedral is visited together with the museum, on one route.
The Museo de Artesanía Iberoamericana de Tenerife occupies the former Dominican convent of San Benito Abad in the Villa de La Orotava. The building keeps its stone entrance arch, the cloister, the timber ceilings and the stone staircase, with work by the Canarian architect, sculptor and gilder Antonio de Orbarán. It reopened as a museum in 1991 and holds more than ten thousand pieces of Iberoamerican and Spanish craftwork.
An interpretation centre housed in the old village casino of El Pinar, at a key point in the south of El Hierro. Its panels explain how the island was formed and which geological stages it has passed through, with a section on how the local population has managed its geological resources. It is run by the island company Meridiano and has a shop and toilet. Bus line 2, which links El Pinar with San Andrés and Valverde, stops within reach.
The Castillo de La Virgen crowns the cliff above the Barranco de Las Nieves, on the northern edge of the old town of Santa Cruz de La Palma. It was never a working military fort. It grew out of the town festival, and its battlements are the stage for the Dialogue between the Castle and the Ship during the Bajada de la Virgen. The rest of the time it serves as a quiet balcony over the rooftops, the harbour and the Atlantic.
Fuencaliente winery known for its volcanic Malvasía wines, with visits in southern La Palma.
Zoological park and animal refuge in Breña Alta, with birds, primates and reptiles amid greenery.
Working sea salt flats and nature reserve in Fuencaliente.
Laurel-forest national park (World Heritage) and its visitor centre.
Spain's largest botanical garden, in Tafira, Gran Canaria.
The Mirador Jardín de Las Hespérides looks out over the La Galga ravine, in the municipality of San Andrés y Sauces on the island of La Palma. It offers wide panoramic views and holds the monument to the Garden of the Hesperides, a tribute to the ancient classical myth and to its link with the Canary Islands. It is reached by car along the northern LP-1 road, at the Los Galguitos neighbourhood.
A mountain recreation area on the north western slope of Tenerife, above a thousand metres, set in Canary pine forest mixed with faya, tree heath and Canary holly, the species of the island's laurel cloud forest. Access is along the TF-344 road, taking the turning at kilometre 8.8 at the spot known as Choza Casa de la Pradera and then following the El Lagar track. No public transport reaches the site, so you need your own vehicle.
The Mirador de La Punta looks over the valley of Hermigua from the GM-1 road, roughly halfway between Hermigua and Agulo. Below lie Playa de Santa Catalina, the pillars of the old loading crane and a carpet of banana plantations climbing the terraces. Montaña del Hueco and the headland of Hermigua close the background, and across the water Tenerife appears with Teide on a clear day.
A golden-sand city beach on the eastern edge of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, facing the harbour. At around 550 metres long and almost 100 wide it is the capital's second largest beach, and the one locals actually use. The sheltered water stays calm, which makes it an easy swim for families.
An urban beach of volcanic sand beside the capital's Avenida Marítima, at the foot of its historic seafront.
Museum centre devoted to the Carnival of Santa Cruz de Tenerife, opened in 2017 in the barranco de Santos park, with an interactive permanent room.
A natural spring with seven heather-wood spouts in the laurel forest of north-west La Gomera, beside the hamlet of Épina and the start of several walking routes.
An 1890s lighthouse beside the Maspalomas dunes, open daily from 10:30 to 17:00 with free entry.
A former seasonal lagoon among chestnut trees, with trails, barbecue picnic areas, a playground and a viewpoint; dogs allowed.
Volcanic crater on the Gran Canaria summit, its farmed floor visible in full from the rim beside the road.
Museum carved into the rock explaining the life of the native Canarians in the spectacular Barranco de Guayadeque.
Historic botanical garden in Puerto de la Cruz, founded in the 18th century, with tropical and subtropical species from around the world.
Cultural centre for contemporary art, photography and a library in a Herzog & de Meuron building.
International Museum of Contemporary Art set in an 18th-century fortress restored by César Manrique.
Interactive science and technology museum in Parque Santa Catalina, with a digital planetarium and 3D cinema.
A subtropical ravine near Maspalomas with birds of prey in free flight, dolphins and thousands of palms.
Ecomuseum and giant-lizard breeding centre in El Golfo, El Hierro.
The Ruta de los Molinos is the short-distance trail PR LP 02.2 of the La Palma trail network, starting in Santa Cruz de La Palma from the Barriada del Pilar or the Campo del Mensajero. It covers about 7 kilometres of medium difficulty, with 410 metres of ascent and roughly two hours of walking. It can be done all year round, and it is even more interesting in rainy spells, when water runs down the ravines.
The Mirador Altavista occupies the upper part of the Altavista district of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, on the landscaped slope that links the neighbourhood with the Paseo de Chil. The city council opened it to the public in 2019, with three stepped terraces and a fourth one set aside for group relaxation techniques, along with young trees, lighting, shade pergolas and an adjoining parking area.
A viewpoint inside the Caldera de Taburiente National Park, in the municipal district of El Paso. The park's visitor guide places it on the Cumbrecita-Lomo de las Chozas itinerary, which returns by the Mirador de los Roques: a circuit of 2,880 metres, graded low in difficulty, averaging an hour and a half, with signposts at the notable points along the way.
Fuente de Los Roques lies in the municipality of Fuencaliente de La Palma, in the south of the island, in walking country. The official sheet for stage 3 of the GR-131, which links Refugio de El Pilar with Fuencaliente and therefore ends in this same municipality, describes that route as a whole: 23.7 kilometres of descending profile, with a climb early on and a high difficulty rating.
A recreation area in the municipality of El Paso, set roughly halfway along the mountain ridge that splits La Palma in two. It is one of the island's best-loved and busiest spots on fine days, and the celebrated Ruta de los Volcanes sets off from here. The Cumbre Vieja Natural Park visitor centre stands on the same site. Facilities include a camping zone, playground, drinking water, showers, toilets, cooking hearths, barbecue shelters and benches.
A kilometre and a half of earth and stone track along the coastal shelf of San Juan de la Rambla, linking the seaside hamlet of Las Aguas with the Rosario neighbourhood. It takes about an hour, the difficulty is low, and the whole route behaves like one long viewpoint over the water. Along the way there are terraces of potatoes and bananas, tamarisks, reed beds, agaves and the small Callados beach.
Fuerteventura's mountainous heart is protected as a rural park covering 16,544 hectares of the island's oldest massif. The Basal Complex surfaces here, with fossil marine sediments and wide U shaped ravines beneath rounded summits such as Morro Jana at 764 metres and Gran Montaña at 708. The whole area is a Special Protection Area for Birds. Walking is allowed on the existing paths; camping and off road driving are not.
A special nature reserve protecting the dune field of Maspalomas, in the municipality of San Bartolomé de Tirajana, with some 400 hectares of moving sand. It also takes in the lagoon of La Charca at the edge of the system. This is a protected area in its own right and should not be mistaken for the bathing beach.
A summit viewpoint on the rim of the Caldera de los Pinos de Gáldar, at around 1,500 metres and ringed by centuries-old Canary pines. It commands the north and west of Gran Canaria, from the volcano down to the coast. It is also one of the island's official astronomical viewpoints.
Trail number 7 of Teide National Park, running from the foot of Montaña Blanca up to La Rambleta: 8.3 kilometres of high difficulty with 1,194 metres of cumulative ascent.
Archaeological park in northern La Palma, in Garafía, with rock engravings of the ancient Benahoarita people and an interpretive trail winding through laurel forest.
Nature reserve between Firgas and Moya in northern Gran Canaria, with a lush ravine and a classic trail along the riverbed. Uneven terrain; proper footwear is advisable.
A wide dark-sand beach beside La Caleta in Adeje, Tenerife, prized for its sunsets.
A sheltered cove in Puerto del Rosario, the capital of Fuerteventura, perfect for family bathing and snorkelling in calm water.
A La Palma volcano born in the 2021 Cumbre Vieja eruption, near El Paso, now one of the island's leading hiking and geotourism destinations.
A 45-hectare Protected Landscape on the coast of Los Realejos, Tenerife, crossed by a walking path past Canary palm groves, dragon trees and historic buildings.
Protected volcanic area of 10,158.4 hectares across Tinajo, Tías and Yaiza that completely surrounds Timanfaya National Park, with cones, lapilli fields and waymarked paths open to walkers.
Working sea-salt pans on black lava at the southern tip of La Palma, beside the Fuencaliente lighthouse. A landscape of white, black and blue that is one of the island's most photographed spots.
The largest salt flats in the Canaries, a protected wetland in Lanzarote where seawater has been turned into salt for over a century and flamingos gather.
Underground gallery of the Corona lava tube, visited on a guided tour.
Natural and cultural site designed by César Manrique inside a seaside volcanic tube.
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