The Mother Church of Saint John the Baptist is located in the heart of the city of Arucas, on the island of Gran Canaria. For its architectural beauty it is known as the "Cathedral of Arucas" and is one of the best known monuments of the whole island.

Started to build in 1909 on the bse of an old hermitage that dates back to colonial times, back in the year 1500, the beginning of the sixteenth century when an urban nucleus began to settle around the. Over the centuries and the commercial boom of the city, it became necessary to expand it, works that were gradually made between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries, until finally in the twentieth century, in the aforementioned 1909, restructuring was faced total that gave rise to this church of current plant that, finally was definitively finished 70 years later.

Arucas has a fantastic place from where to see a magnificent view of the whole area where the city is located as well as its surroundings. This place has the name of Mirador de la Montaña de Arucas, is located 412 meters above sea level and the most curious thing is that it is placed inside what was the crater of the volcano of the same name . This cone has an approximate age of 300,000 years and its top had a shallow crater that was filled in the 50s to place this picturesque place.

From the viewpoint you can have one of the best panoramas of the Arucas municipality and the northern part of the island of Gran Canarias, you can see from La Isleta to Galdar Mountain, while looking north you can see La Cumbre.

In total the Viewpoint of the Mountain of Arucas has 4 balconies distributed to the 4 cardinal points that will allow visitors to enjoy the view of banana plantations, as well as the city and other population centers.