The island of Gran Canaria is one of the most popular holiday destinations. The climate here is also warm in winter.

I have been there in December 2009 and spent at first some time in the island capital Las Palmas. This attracts visitors with its unique cathedral of Santa Ana in the old town. It is the largest and oldest church in Gran Canaria. It was built in 1500 as a sign of the conquest of Gran Canaria by the Spaniards. But it has been finally finished 1781.





The space in front of the Cathedral, the Plaza de Santa Ana, attracts the tourists with its beautiful buildings from different eras that surrounded this place.

Also the home of Christoph Columbus I've watched on my journey. It is located directly behind the cathedral. ...

There is no other island with such a conspicuous variety of landscapes like Gran Canaria. Only 200 km separated from the African coast and 1100 km from the Spanish mainland, Gran Canaria joins the archipelago of the Canary Islands.



In the heart of the island of Gran Canaria a number of ravines lead down to the coast, which gives it´s special characteristic shape to the island together with the volcanic origin.



The climate in Gran Canaria is generally mild and with a an average of about 21 degrees during the whole year.



The central mountain range divides the climate of the isle into the south and southwest clime. The south is marked by trade winds and more sunny weather ...

On a special website called Cosas Canarias you can find lots of items to buy in the Canary area.

On Cosascanarias.com you find Audio/TV items, pets and pet accesories as well as goods for house and garden. For all who are interested in antiques, Cosascanarias.com sometimes has attractive offers. Cars and accesories are as well anounced on this webpage.

Another rubric on the page of Cosascanarias.com ist Real Estate, where you can find offers for properties and rental objects in the area of the Canary archipelago.

If you are looking for private contacts with people to share leisure time and hobbies, you can have a look at the announces on Cosascanarias.com.

Vacations, journeys and excursions are as well offered on this variable website. There is as well a category about employment on the Cosascanarias.com site.

Cosascanarias.com is lika a virtual market place on the Canary Isles, which offers you anything you ...

Gran Canaria Airport ist the fifth largest spanish airport and the largest airport of the Canary Islands. Allowing 53 landings and take-offs per hour, the important airport handled over 10 million passengers and 37232 tonnes of cargo in 2006.
The airport is located to the east of the island on the Bahía de Gando and about 18 kilometers from the capital of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.

To improve efficiency, director Francisco Macho confirmed an expandation of Gran Canaria Airport completed by the year 2020. The expandation will effect an increase of flight operations up to 80 flights per hour and is to be realised in three steps.

The first construction phase should be finished in 2011 containing the extension of parking sites. The second period includes the constitution of a third runway.

For this purpose the motorway GC-1 will be diverted. Start of construction is in 2015. ...

Originally there were two amusement parks focussing on water fun at Gran Canaria:
the so called “AquaSur” as well as the “Ocean Park”. The last one was located at mid Maspalomas, but it is out of order nowadays.

The “Aquasur” finally turned into “Aqualand” in the course of the years and makes the largest leisure park of the isle by now. Covering a surface area of about 90.000 square metres this theme park aims at offering a great amount of water- based attractions such as for example more than 30 water slides. There is a certain area addressing at children which also contains a great variety of the park’s mascot, the “Aqualand”- ape.

Another amazing attraction is the famous “Tornado”, a closed flume entertaining visitors by presenting light- and sound effects while sliding. Furthermore there are tourist features like the “Mamut” for four persons, the “Crazy Race” with nine parallel ...