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By Lucy Corne

This can be the last word consultant for exploring Gran Canaria. no matter what your price range there are best ten lists that will help you plan your journey. From the head ten secluded seashores to the pinnacle ten liveliest bars, each job is roofed during this elementary consultant. With enormous quantities of beautiful pictures and precise maps of the realm you will get directly to the place you need to opt for an idyllic island vacation.

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Sample cheap traditional favourites here. The road to the peak is closed from 10pm–8am daily. • Map E3 • Hotel Golf Bandama: 928 351 538. www. Caldera With a diameter of 800 m (2,600 ft) and an average depth of 200 m (650 ft), Bandama is the largest recent crater on the island. Details of the last eruption remain vague, but vulcanologists agree that Bandama expelled its fiery heart once and for all around 5,000 years ago. @ Flora The crater is a haven for endemic flora. As well as cactuses and palm trees, look out for white viper’s bugloss, olive and mastic trees, and some impressive houseleeks.

31 Gran Canaria’s Top 10 Puerto de la Luz, c. Volcanic Like all of the Canary Islands, Gran Canaria is volcanic in origin and first emerged from the ocean 15 million years ago. A second spurt of volcanic activity created the northeast of the island 11 million years later. Happily, the volcanoes have been extinct for 3,000 years. of the First @ Arrival Inhabitants Exploration # Early Although the Portuguese and Mallorcans had both sailed past the island, it wasn’t until 1405 that Jean de Bethencourt (below) landed.

Pendulum, $ Foucault’s Museo Elder de la Gran Canaria’s Top 10 The sponsors of Gran Canaria’s most important statue of the Virgin resided for centuries in this sparkling example of Canarian architecture. Today it is preserved as a museum, complete with period furniture and paintings. There is also a patio and a small chapel (see p20). Top 10 Museum Exhibits Ciencia y la Tecnología Patient folk can watch this massive pendulum gradually knocking over small posts, proving that the earth rotates. de Tara, % Idolo Museo Canario Interior of CAAM Las Palmas * CAAM, Set in the historic quarter of Las Palmas is this ultra-modern art gallery.

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