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The Casa de Colón is an institution that was created in 1950, the goal of the institution is to investigate and disseminate the history of Canary Islands in your relationships with America. The institution is located in a historic building in the neighborhood of Vegueta in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, is created from several houses, currently occupies several mazanas. This location was chosen because it was the former Casa del Gobernador and according to some experts was visited by Christopher Columbus in the stop he made on his first trip in 1482 when you discovered America.
The Casa de Colón has become an important cultural reference on the island, within which there are several rooms that serve as sections and where it is possible to know the funds and services of the institution.
Near the Casa de Colón is the house where Alfredo Kraus was born, with a façade with Gothic decoration flamboyant
In Moya you will find the natural site Los Tilos de Moya, one of the most interesting places of laurisilva that can be found in the whole Canary archipelago, there is also a great amount of hiking routes that can be covered and that leads to the most beautiful corners of this nature reserve.
Within the same natural area of Los Tilos de Moya there is an interpretation center where it is possible to know in depth the importance of this place thanks to the large amount of flora and fauna endemic, some of them like the Cresta de Gallo that are seriously threatened.
The Interpretation Center has 2 exhibition rooms in which, in a didactic way, you can find out all the details of the Los Tilos training. There are also panels in which history and natural values are collected in addition to the traditional uses of this forest.
Benito Pérez Galdós was a novelist, dramatist, chronicler and politician who was born in Las Palmas de Gran Canarias and who best represents the realist novel of the 19th century. The writer lived on the island until he was 19 years old when he moved to Madrid.
As a tribute to this illustrious citizen of Las Palmas de Gran Canarias, the house museum that bears his name was opened in a traditional 19th century house in the Vegueta district. The building has all the characteristics of domestic architecture of the nineteenth century, its distribution follows the traditional model around two central courtyards, maintaining both the structure and the original materials, although some modifications were made to turn it into a museum.
In the Casa-Museo Pérez Galdós there is a permanent exhibition about the writer, the different rooms are conceived as a well-documented recreation of the domestic and family environments in which life passed from Pérez-Galdós.
Distributed by its salts you can see different pieces of furniture, works of art, photographs, many decorative objects, musical instruments and a long list of elements that describe the everyday environment of the writer in the 19th century.
Casa África is a Spanish public consortium whose main objective is the promotion of relations between Africa, Europe and Spain. It is headquartered in the city of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, on Gran Canaria (Canary Islands) and is integrated by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation, the Government of the Canary Islands and the City Council of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. Casa África is part of the Public Diplomacy Houses Network of the Spanish State together with Casa de América, Casa Árabe, Casa Asia, Casa Mediterráneo and the Sefarad-Israel Center.
The Interpretation Center of Las Salinas de Tenefé is located in the salinas of the same name in Santa Lucía de Tirajana. The old house of the salinero is what today is known as an interpretation center and that is divided into two different parts in which it is possible to elaborate and extract the salt.
First of all, a tour of the entire area of the salt mines is made in order to know all the facilities, in this tour you can see how the salt is obtained explaining the whole process until this mineral reaches the table of consumers. Then you access the Interpretation Center whose situation is the second floor of the house of the salinero, this part is set up as an exhibition hall and it is possible to know through the explanatory panels, computer supports and reproductions the most remarkable aspects of the history, the nature and anthropology of salt.
The salinas are located in the well-known zone of Punta de Tenefé, they were built at the end of the XVIII century, with the aim of marketing with it with the fishing boats that worked in the Canary waters and thus cover the insular consumption.