GRAN CANARIA (Spain)

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Gran Canaria 'The small continent' is often how this island is described due to its extremely varied landscapes with European, African and even American vegetation. The mountain range in the island's centre, of a height of about 2000 metres, is cut by some bizarre canyons.

Hardly anywhere else you can find such different landscapes and even climatical zones being geographically that close one to each other: mountain massives, desert land, tropical forrests, ...
Along the seaside there are wide beaches of sand, and while elsewhere people are shuddering of cold, here the tourists are lying in the sun and looking at those mountainpeaks being covered with snow.

Las Palmas is Gran Canaria's capital, with 352.641 inhabitants, and a lively ambience, being evidence of a population of southern temperament not always taking life at its most serious.
This city's great cultural offer, attractive festivities and highly recommendable cuisine , as well traditional and regional as international, will make your stay memorable.

Maspalomas maybe the most beautiful among the fantastic beaches of this island. Fine white sand at a length of 6 kilometres and a width of up to 1 kilometre, and intensely blue sea ... a paradise for sunworshippers, in particular during the cold European winter!

There are modern hotel-complexes and sports installations, more than anywhere at Faro de Maspalomas , with the island's most important sports harbour, Pasitoblanco .