Gran Canaria con niños

Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (Spain). This museum is managed by a foundation in which the Government of the Canary Islands participates.
Its headquarters are located in the Elder building, which was owned by a former shipping company, which dates from the late nineteenth century and has 6,800 m2 of surface area and 4,600 m2 of exhibition space.

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.

• America before its discovery by Christopher Columbus: information about the American population and its culture and is divided into two sections. One of them is Cultura Esmeraldeña and in second place Culturas Mexicanas.
• Cristóbal Colón y sus Viajes.
• The history of Las Palmas de Gran Canarias.
• Paintings from the 16th to the 19th century.

Near the Casa de Colón is the house where Alfredo Kraus was born, with a façade with Gothic decoration flamboyant

los Palmitos, in the south of the island of Gran Canaria, Spain. In this subtropical oasis located in a completely natural environment hundreds of species of animals and plants, native or brought from all over the world, come together. It is owned by the Spanish multinational Aspro-Ocio. It does not belong to the European Association of Zoos and Aquariums (EAZA).

around 15,000 square meters and houses up to 1200 different species of cactus brought from the most unsuspected parts of the world. Copies from countries such as Madagascar, Bolivia, Mexico, Guatemala etc.

In the Cactualdea you can see varieties of infinite shapes, sizes or colors, an example is one of the largest cactus in the world with a height of 6 meters. In the Cactualdea, a park dedicated to the largest cactus in Europe, it also offers other plants and some animals, you can see palms, aloe vera plants and cardones among animals such as turtles or donkeys.

The Cactualdea also has an amphitheater within its facilities, the simulation of a volcano to know how they work. Finally, you can relax in the cafeteria, having a drink on your terrace and finish the visit by picking up some souvenirs in the store.

La Catualdea or Casa de las espinas also has a reproduction of a cave Guanche that recreates even the smallest detail these caves where the first settlers lived.

of the territories that the hand of man has altered the least, which shows the richness of this point of Agaete. Tamada has about 7,500 hectares that goes from the western coast of the island and is declared by Unesco as Biosphere Reserve. The native Canarian pine forests on the summits and the imposing cliffs and the biodiversity that can be found in the ravines are the elements that make this park so rich.

In the Tamadaba Natural Park you have to walk in the shade of the Canarian pines or have a picnic in the recreational area of Llanos de La Mimbre or admire from the peak of La Bandera the dense forest full of life.

From the viewpoint of El Balcón, even within the Tamadaba Natural Park you can have a fabulous view of the marine cliffs that have a curious form of dragon's tail or the beach of Guayedra with its ravine dotted with palm trees.