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Mirador de la Montana de Arucas
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.
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Museo Municipal de Arucas
Located in what was the house of Gourié, built in the 19th century, today is the Municipal Museum of Arucas, also known above with the name of Old house of the Mayorazgo de Arucas. The museum is surrounded by landscaped areas with a great ornamental interest, a perfect place to walk before accessing the building's facilities. Both the garden areas and the municipal museum itself are located within the enclosure of the Municipal Park. Inside, the Municipal Museum hosts excellent works by artists of the stature of painters Santiago Santana or Guillermo Sureda in addition to sculptors such as Manolo Ramos and Abrahán Cardenas. These are the artists whose works are permanently inside the museum, there are other rooms that are dedicated to exhibitions of a temporary nature. In the same place there is also the Arucas tourist office, so it is a good point not only to enjoy art, but also to be informed of all the attractions that offers this city. The museum is located in the Plaza de la Constitución so it is easily accessible.
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Iglesia San Juan Bautista
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.
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Barranquillo de la Punta de Arucas
The Punta de Arucas is a small ledge located to the north of the town, very close to the place known as Rosa Silva. La Punta or barranquillo of the Punta de Arucas has a terrace that faces a cliff with an ocean drop of about thirty-five meters in height. According to the experts, the balcony is a platform of marine abrasion that formed on the lava of the volcano of the Cardones mountain and therefore it is possible to see marine sediments, fossils. The area of Punta de Arucas is bumpy, full of routes, impossible formations, caves, islets and tunnels which gives this natural environment a particular beauty. The first thing that can draw the attention of the barranquillo de Arucas are the arches where the lava flow is perfectly distinguished, which ended up solidifying and giving rise to these forms and that the erosion continues to mold. There is a path that runs along a lot of the coastline of the tip of Arucas, this road crosses the ravine and offers spectacular views of the entire rugged coastline, the path passes through Fuentes del Guincho, arriving at a cave of the same name and going through a cleft called the Puntón.
