Today Gran Canaria combines historic centres, midlands cultural landscapes and a strong urban profile. The city of Las Palmas concentrates port, military and commercial memory, while the interior preserves agricultural forms, vernacular architecture and aboriginal ceremonial spaces that help read the island as a living archive of the archipelago.
Today Gran Canaria combines historic centres, midlands cultural landscapes and a strong urban profile. The city of Las Palmas concentrates port, military and commercial memory, while the interior preserves agricultural forms, vernacular architecture and aboriginal ceremonial spaces that help read the island as a living archive of the archipelago.
Among its main reference points are Historic Las Palmas, Aboriginal landscape, Natural contrasts, which connect landscape, memory and everyday life. Heritage combines material remains, cultural landscapes and living practices, so it must be read together with history, territory and social life.
Key points
Risco Caido y Patrimonio Mundial
El complejo arqueologico de Risco Caido, junto a los paisajes sagrados de la cumbre, fue declarado Patrimonio Mundial UNESCO en 2019 por su valor unico.
Cueva Pintada de Galdar
El museo-yacimiento de la Cueva Pintada conserva las pinturas rupestres mas relevantes de la cultura canaria prehispanica, con diseños geometricos de gran precision.
Vegueta y el centro historico de Las Palmas
Vegueta es el primer nucleo fundacional de Las Palmas, con la Catedral de Santa Ana, arquitectura colonial y el primer ayuntamiento de Canarias.
Arquitectura religiosa del norte
Ermitas, iglesias y casas consistoriales en Teror, Aguimes, Arucas y Galdar muestran la evolucion de la arquitectura religiosa insular entre los siglos XVI y XX.
Paisajes culturales de medianias
Los sistemas agricolas de bancales en Tejeda, Artenara y Valleseco forman paisajes culturales de larga historia que siguen activos en la actualidad.
Municipalities of Gran Canaria
See all →- AgaeteAgaete is a municipality of Gran Canaria, presented through settlement, landscape, local memory and its links with the rest of the island.
- AgüimesAgüimes is a municipality of Gran Canaria, presented through settlement, landscape, local memory and its links with the rest of the island.
- ArtenaraArtenara is a municipality of Gran Canaria, presented through settlement, landscape, local memory and its links with the rest of the island.
- ArucasArucas is a municipality of Gran Canaria, presented through settlement, landscape, local memory and its links with the rest of the island.
- FirgasFirgas is a municipality of Gran Canaria, presented through settlement, landscape, local memory and its links with the rest of the island.
- GáldarGáldar is a municipality of Gran Canaria, presented through settlement, landscape, local memory and its links with the rest of the island.