Heritage towns in Las Palmas

A Gran Canaria town shaped by sugar, rum, and cochineal, crowned by a towering neo-Gothic church that took most of the twentieth century to build.

A Gran Canaria town whose name has shifted across six centuries, from aboriginal Aguía to Villa de Guía to its current official title, carrying the layers of Canarian conquest, colonial administration, and Catholic devotion in every version.

A pilgrimage town in the highlands of Gran Canaria, built around a 15th-century apparition of the Virgin and a basilica that draws the devout from across the Canary Islands.

Once the capital of Lanzarote, this hilltop town in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria watches over the island from a volcanic peak crowned by a piracy museum inside a centuries-old fortress.

A green inland municipality on Gran Canaria whose valleys preserve Aboriginal cave dwellings, ancient granaries, and Libyan-Berber inscriptions carved into the volcanic rock.

The oldest European settlement on Fuerteventura, this former island capital holds the ruins of the first Franciscan convent built in the Canary Islands and a church that once ranked as a cathedral.

The oldest quarter of Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, where the cathedral, the house Columbus stayed in, and a dense cluster of historic plazas and churches survive largely intact from the Spanish colonial era.

A historic neighbourhood at the heart of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Gran Canaria, where a grid of old streets, a sailors' chapel, and a name borrowed from Seville trace the city's origins back to its first settlers.