Vegueta, Risco Caido, the summits, Maspalomas, Galdar and other landmarks provide a framework for reading the island's culture and nature.
Among its main reference points are Historic Las Palmas, Aboriginal landscape, Natural contrasts, which connect landscape, memory and everyday life. These places are not presented as a tourist list, but as points from which to read historical, natural and cultural processes.
Each site links landscape, heritage, settlement and memory within a coherent reading of the island.
Key points
Roque Nublo and the summit
Roque Nublo is the island's landscape icon, in the municipality of Tejeda, reached on foot from viewpoints and trails that reveal the mountainous heart of Gran Canaria.
Vegueta, Las Palmas
The original colonial quarter, with Santa Ana Cathedral, the Museo Canario, the Casa de Colon and Plaza de Santo Domingo as architectural and historical landmarks.
Cueva Pintada, Galdar
An archaeological museum built over the original site, displaying cave paintings of the ancient Canarians in situ within a first-rate museum design.
The dunes of Maspalomas
A remarkable natural area at the southern tip, where a protected dune ecosystem coexists with tourist infrastructure and shelters specialised flora and fauna.
The Fataga ravine
One of the most photographed ravines on the island, with Canary palms, whitewashed hamlets and a human scale that contrasts with the arid surroundings.