Gran Canaria Tourist Guide

The historical heritage of Gran Canaria is readily available to visitors, through an attractive network of museums and art galleries that are scattered all over the island. The buildings they are housed in are of priceless value, and take visitors on a journey through time. There are pre-Hispanic mummies, modern art collections and personal belongs of local literary writers and painters who all made their mark well beyond the Islands’ borders. To better understand the lives of the islands’ early dwellers, before the arrival of the Castilian conquest, it is well worth a visit to the Canary Museum. This age old institution preserves, studies and exhibits fascinating objects and human remains that illustrate the ways and customs of the aborígenes. The Columbus House Museum is the site where the Genoese sailor stopped off at during his first voyage to America, and its rooms exhibit paintings, cartography documents and navigation instruments, as well as other documents that portray the close ties that existed between Gran Canaria and the far off continent. Just a few yards away, without leaving Vegueta, the walls of the Atlantic Modern Art Centre (CAAM) are home to over 2,500 works of art of different genres, formats and styles with a distinctly multicultural flavour. This international vocation is shared by Africa House, an institution that specializes in contemporary art and emerging creators, who choose this venue as a place to retell their experiences by way of speeches and conferences that help bring an already nearby territory that much closer to home.

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An attractive network of museums and art galleries that are spread all over the island.

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LEISURE GUIDE OF GRAN CANARIA