Las Palmas Gran Canaria Tourist Info Guide
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Las Palmas de Gran Canaria beach
Welcome at the Las Palmas City & Gran Canaria Travel Guide, the largest independent local tourist information online over Las Palmas and Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain:
Take a first look at our accomodation reviews of Canteras Beach Apartment rentals or reviews of Hotels in Las Palmas. Go along with us to a sightseeing tour to Vegueta Las Palmas, the nice old town, check flights: arrivals, airport transfers and departures at the Las Palmas Gran Canaria Airport or visit our Gran Canaria weather forecast to find out, if your Las Palmas tour will be accompanied by the warm & sunny canary climate. Read our Bars & Restaurants reviews, shopping tips, or enjoy our Gran Canaria pictures galleries and images of Las Palmas city.
Where to go in Las Palmas and Grand Canary Island? Use a local bus "Guagua" or the Las Palmas Car hire at airport to discover Gran Canarias Beach resorts like Playa del Ingles, Amadores – Puerto Rico, the famous Maspalomas dunes or former Fishing-Villages like Mogan and Agaete – Puerto de Las Nieves. Plan Excursions to Tejeda in the inner mountains, book with us a surfcamp or improve your spanish at the Las Palmas language school.
Our Las Palmas de Gran Canaria Online-Guide is in its broad & deep content unmatched because edited locally – directly in the heart of Las Palmas City and under permanent development.
LAS PALMAS NEWS and recent entries at the Gran Canaria local guide
Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, JKT
The yearly Poster-Contest for the official banner representing the Carnaval Latino in Las Palmas was decided and the winner under 63 competitors awarded: Grafic-Designer and Carnival-Blogger Ruyman Rodriguez wons with his design "Plumardina", which represents from now on the 2011 official carnival logo. Plumardina is a mix of the two words Pluma (plume) and Sardina (pilchard) – so the Poster shows the plume as Symbol for Masquerade as also for für Travesty and the Sardine as Symbol for the traditional Carnivals-End-celebrity with the funeral of the Sardine.
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Canteras Beach Las Palmas
You will hardly find another city in Spain that offers to her citizens and visitors such a wide variety of different attractions: beautiful and clean Las Canteras Beach, a lively Old Town which is definitely worth a visit, enjoyable shopping and entertainment districts. Only one or two kilometres away you have the choice between sun beds and paragliders, a stroll through the Old Town "vegueta" and a dive to a reef. All of this, however, is not exotic luxury. You can reach Las Palmas de Gran Canaria very easily, fast and at low costs – still, it is far from being overcrowded by tourists. After arriving at Gando Airport Las Palmas (LPA), almost all tourists on the island turn south. This is why the tourists on the beautiful and well looked-after "Las Canteras beach" are always a modest minority.
A holiday in Las Palmas has many advantages when compared to the South of Gran Canaria:
- good prices for accomodation in hotels, apartments or pensions
- economical, authentic and diversified eating and drinking in the restaurants and bars
- shopping is much cheaper than in the South while offering a wider range
- numerous types of sports such as surfing, diving, paragliding and many more
- a wide variety of interesting events, festivals and cultural events the whole year through
Las-Palmas-24.com does not only complement the typical travel guide in book-form, it offers much more than simply a good travelogue: interactive city maps and satellite maps give you an overview – accurate to the metre – where you can find viewpoints, sights and recommended restaurants. Additionally, we offer daily up-to-date reports, photos and news about all types of events, cultural events and other attractions in Spain’s most Southern metropolis. For very impatient people the Las Palmas-Webcams offer a first glance.
Travelling information which is updated on a regular basis and tips from insiders for recommendable hotels, apartments, pensions, restaurants and bars. Everything is linked and thus makes for one of the most complete and most useful city guides about Gran Canaria’s capital.
These topics are already online and they are upgraded every day: official and neutral hotel lists, a long index of apartments and pensions. Hundreds of pictures of city tours, viewpoints and sights (not just for museum enthusiasts). Insider tips about shopping or eating out without disappointments in the best of the many hundreds of restaurants. An enormous scope of information for surfing, bodyboard, where and how to dive on Gran Canaria: reports about diving schools and a map of interesting places for diving. Photo articles about the Womad Festival and the Carnaval 2007, as well as many other photo articles and interviews and reports. Comprehensive information on arrival, such as flights or ferries from and to Las Palmas, transportation with bus, taxi, hire-cars and bikes can all be found on our extensive information sites.
The LasPalmas24.com-travel site will certainly never be “finished” as it is upgraded almost daily on location. If you don’t find what you are looking for this time, just leave criticism or suggestions – we work on our travelogue each day and on your next visit you are sure to find brand-new and up-to-date news from Las Palmas!
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