Maspalomas

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Maspalomas

Maspalomas is the oldest touristic town in the south coast of Gran Canaria

Gran Canaria

Gran Canaria is an island of the Canary Islands, an archipelago located in the Atlantic Ocean 210 km from the northwest coast of Africa. It is located southeast of Tenerife and west of Fuerteventura....
in the Canary Islands

Canary Islands

The Canary Islands are a Spain archipelago which, in turn, forms one of the Spanish Autonomous Communities and an Outermost Region of the European Union....
. The people of Maspalomas create a warm, vibrant, friendly atmosphere. Maspalomas is part of the municipality of San Bartolomé de Tirajana

San Bartolomé de Tirajana

San Bartolom? de Tirajana is a Canarian municipality in the southeastern portion of the island of Gran Canaria in the Las Palmas province in the Canary Islands....
. Its name may derive from that of Rodrigo Mas de Palomar, a settler and soldier from Majorca, or from Francisco Palomar, a Genoese

Genoa

Genoa is a city and an important seaport in northern Italy, the capital of the Province of Genoa and of the region of Liguria. The city has a population of about 610,000 and the urban area has a population of about 900,000....
friend of Alonso Fernandez de Lugo

Alonso Fernández de Lugo

Javier Alonso Luis Fern?ndez de Lugo was a Spain military man, conquistador, city founder, and administrator. He conquered the islands of La Palma and Tenerife for the Kingdom of Castile; they were the last of the Canary Islands to be conquered by Europeans....
who purchased 87 Guanche

Guanches

Guanches , now extinct as a distinct people, were the first known inhabitants of the Canary Islands, having migrated to the archipelago sometime between 1000 BC and 100 BC....
slaves from Güímar

Güímar

G??mar is the name of a municipality, town, and valley in the eastern part of the Spanish island of Tenerife, one of the Canary Islands, and part of Santa Cruz de Tenerife ....
and settled in the area.

The place is famous for tourism, its hotels, beaches, dunes, apartments, and other facilities including restaurants, bars, taverns, shopping centres, souvenirs, and businesses.

There is a 68 m tall lighthouse El Faro de Maspalomas at the southern point from where the 12 km long beach and dunes, a nature reserve since 1897, lead to Playa del Inglés

Playa del Inglés

Playa del Ingl?s is a town in the south coast of the island of Gran Canaria. Playa del Ingl?s is part of the municipality of San Bartolom? de Tirajana....
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