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24rd International Football Tournament of Maspalomas
| A walk though an enlightened city.
History and heritage in Santa Cruz de La Palma.
Walking through the historic quarter of Santa Cruz de La Palma is like going back in time. If you give in to your imagination, it is easy to envisage beautiful ladies dressed in gowns from times long gone and catch a glimpse of the masts of the ships bringing Flemish paintings to the town. You can even ponder the Age of Enlightenment at a time when the word had no meaning in the rest of Spain. Thanks to this rich influx of ideas and wealth, the city boosts an abundant and important artistic heritage. |
The Guarapo gardens
The Gomeran people have made the cultivation of palm trees into a characteristic symbol of the Columbus island
There are few places like La Gomera where the visitor can enjoy manmade landscapes that do not present a challenge to nature. Undoubtedly, one of the most surprising sights on the Columbus island are the exuberant palm plantations. The palm trees on this island of surprises are a consistent part of the landscape. Since ancient times, prior to the Castilian conquest, the Gomeran people have had a close relationship with the Canarian palm, a symbolic species of the islands' flora that has provided them with clothes, wood, honey and a strong alcoholic drink that the Spanish call palm wine |
Jandía, a natural park with a difference
The south of Fuerteventura features wild mountains and idyllic beaches
When Miguel de Unamuno arrived on Fuerteventura, exiled by the dictatorship of Primo de Rivera, he remarked that the scorched land resembled a skeleton model of the mainland. After several months in his new home, Don Miguel learned to look at Fuerteventura with different eyes and began to acknowledge his deep seated affection for the moors that had reminded him so much of certain parts of Castile. In the south of the second largest Canary island, there is a natural park which shows the vivid and wild side of the island, coloured by the ochre tone that characterises the natural landscape of Maxorata (the ancient name of the island). Jandía, with its bare mountains and idyllic beaches, is a special place where it is easy to lose yourself among the wild beauty of this pure island |
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