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Iglesia Santa María de Guía
The Church of Santa Maria de Guía is one of the most important places in the population of Gran Canaria. The temple began to be built at the beginning of the XVII century where the hermitage was in principle in honor of the Virgen de Guía. Despite construction began in the seventeenth century was not until the nineteenth when the work was completed. The value of this building meant that in 1982, together with the historic center of the city, it was declared a national historical and artistic monument. The main façade of the Church of Santa Maria de Guía began to be built in 1780, the style of the church is Neoclassical, the austerity of the temple is what will attract the attention of visitors, was made by José Luján Pérez, the temple floor is rectangular, with two towers, its facade offers three parts in one plane , a central that corresponds to the covers and other lateral ones that remain in the towers. In the interior of the church you can see several styles such as colonial, Gothic and Renaissance and that conjugate in perfect harmony. The main altarpiece, the Our Lady of Las Mercedes, Chapel of Calvary, Baptistery and Chapel of the Sepulcher, Chapel of the Epistle, Chapel of St. Joseph, Altar of San Sebastian, Altar should be highlighted of Santa Lucia among other elements.
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Mirador de Pinos de Gáldar
In Santa María de Guía you will find the Viewpoint of Galdar Pines, also known as Redondela, at this point the boundaries that delimit the populations of Moya, Santa María de Guía y Galdar. The first thing that attracts the attention of the viewpoint is the environment full of hundred-year-old pines that serve to give name to this place, the second that does not leave indifferent are the spectacular views of the Gran Canaria Island that can be obtain. The summit gives way to mediocrities with a curious landscape of mosaics, said mediocrities were once a forest of mists known as Selva de Doramas, even today there are still some relicts of this jungle. This jungle of Doramas disappeared due to intensive logging to dedicate the land to subsistence and grazing crops. From the viewpoint it is also possible to see the Los Pinos de Gáldar Caldera, the most recent volcanic device in the Gran Canarias formation process . The mountain of the Pinar de Tamadaba can be seen to the west. The pine forest and its surroundings were declared World Biosphere Reserve of Gran Canaria by UNESCO in 2005
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Cenobio de Valerón
On the island of Gran Canaria in the municipality of Santa María de Guia, you will find Cenobio de Valerón which was an old barn Aboriginal collective character located on a high escarpment of the Montaña del Galleg or within a site dating back 800 years ago. The aborigines took advantage of the geological conditions of the volcanic cone to open, through peaks of stone, 350 cavities that are located on several levels and that served at the time to store cereals and other foods. The Cenobio de Valerón is located in a strategic point which makes it an authentic natural fortress that goes completely unnoticed from the outside. It has the name of Cenobio because it obeyed to the false idea by which the silos and cameras of the deposit were the rooms of a luck of convent in which the young people of class were recruited noble until it was time to get married while they were in the care of the priestess of great social and religious influence, today totally ruled out.
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Museo Néstor Álamo
In Santa María de Guia is located in Museo Néstor Álamo, this museum shows the evolution of the history of Canaria music. The first thing that catches your attention inside is that it is a traditional house in the historic center of Gran Canaria. The tour begins with the sounds that the natives created about two thousand years ago and continues with the evolution of the sounds until reaching the traditional music as it is known today. The interiors of the Néstor Álamo Museum offer rooms of a 17th century manorial building all under the guiding thread of the figure of Néstor Álamo. Néstor Álamo is a key figure to understand traditional Canarian music and other artistic disciplines of the archipelago. The work of the multifaceted artist covers music, literature, restoration history, etc. Néstor Álamo began to organize and catalog the file and library of the Canary Museum, ended up being the official chronicler of the island, also composed popular songs like Sombras del Mublo that happened to be the hymn of Gran Canaria, I do not only create the author Canarian song. He was also researcher of the catalog of the Inquisition, gave life to the museum of the Casa de Colón. An entire institution on the island.
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Tagoror del Gallego
Tagoror del Gallego is one of the most popular sites in Gran Canaria, it is in the town of Santa María de Guía on the top of the mountain of the same name. The Tagoror consists of 6 seats excavated in the rock and with the same height, in front of these seats there is also a platform delimited by stones. The name by which the Togoror is known is believed to be because they were lands that belonged to Gonzalo Gallego in 1513. These seats or thrones located at the top of the Cenobio de Valerón excavated in the earth is surrounded by what could be a kind of stands, some experts believe that the Tagoror del Gallego was a kind of council where justice was administered. It is possible that Diego de Silva was judged in this place, Silva was a Portuguese conqueror who was spared his life on the condition of not trying to conquer again. The Tagoror del Gallego was declared Zona Arqueológica in 1993. The whole environment is dotted with sites that show the importance of the population settlement of the Canarian aborigines .
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Iglesia de San Roque
The municipality of Santa María de Guía in Gran Canaria has the Hermitage of San Roque. This temple was built in the decade of 1520, although over time it has been receiving reforms throughout the nineteenth century and that gives it that eclectic style that can be seen on the facade. In its interior it is possible to emphasize that a retablo of the XIXth century is conserved. The hermitage of San Roque was one of the elements that showed the growth of the population of Santa María de Guía. The temple has a gabled roof and a catenary rehabilitated in 1867 in an eclectic style dotted with classic and Gothic elements in the belfry and window. The cover of lime and sang of Aruca, windows pilasters cajeadas attached as auction in perillones with pyramidal form. This hermitage arises around one of the neighborhoods of Santa María de Guía,
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Reserva Natural Especial de El Brezal
Located in a mountain area in the northern part of the island, in the municipality of Santa María de Guía is the Reserva Natural Especial de El Brezal. This Natural Reserve is an important forest of fayal-heath and the largest sample of the Canary monteverde, it is possible to find also bicacaro and cabezon, cedars and an important pine forest area. The Special Reserve of El Brezal occupies an area of 107 hectares, a mountainous area with short ravines, steep slopes and steep reliefs. The strong erosive processes have caused the reserve to have steep slopes, this is joined by the trade winds that have caused a dismantling of the geological structures as a result of their exposure. With regard to the flora, 91 taxa have been cataloged, of which 65 are endemic and in turn these 17 macaronesians, 40 Canarian and 8 Gran Canarians. The fauna is also very interesting, they are vertebrates like reptiles, the giant lizard of Gran Canaria, the striped grancanaria lisa, or the Boettger perennial. You can also see birds such as the mountain canary or blue tits, Canary mosquito net, the alpispa, the Canarian calender, the robin or the capirote among many others. To this we must add the large amount of invertebrate fauna that complete a natural site of incalculable value.
Interesting place
Iglesia Santa María de Guía
The Church of Santa Maria de Guía is one of the most important places in the population of Gran Canaria. The temple began to be built at the beginning of the XVII century where the hermitage was in principle in honor of the Virgen de Guía. Despite construction began in the seventeenth century was not until the nineteenth when the work was completed. The value of this building meant that in 1982, together with the historic center of the city, it was declared a national historical and artistic monument. The main façade of the Church of Santa Maria de Guía began to be built in 1780, the style of the church is Neoclassical, the austerity of the temple is what will attract the attention of visitors, was made by José Luján Pérez, the temple floor is rectangular, with two towers, its facade offers three parts in one plane , a central that corresponds to the covers and other lateral ones that remain in the towers. In the interior of the church you can see several styles such as colonial, Gothic and Renaissance and that conjugate in perfect harmony. The main altarpiece, the Our Lady of Las Mercedes, Chapel of Calvary, Baptistery and Chapel of the Sepulcher, Chapel of the Epistle, Chapel of St. Joseph, Altar of San Sebastian, Altar should be highlighted of Santa Lucia among other elements.
