Canary Hotels

The Canary Islands are Spain's tropical paradise and for Spaniards living in mainland Spain they are synonymous with holidays, as they are for the hundreds and thousands of foreign tourists who pack the islands' resorts all year round. Colonized and populated by Spaniards, they lie 1.150 km off the coast of Africa. They are politically and administratively Spanish and yet culturally and geographically they have very much their own personality.

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	Punta de Papagayo (Lanzarote)

The Canary Islands today consist on seven islands divided, due to administrative purposes, into two areas. The province of Las Palmas brings together the major island of Gran Canaria and the lesser ones of Lanzarote and Fuerteventura. The province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife encompasses Tenerife and its satellite islands of la Gomera, La Palma and Hierro. Within the archipelago there is a temperature variety so extreme that it is easy to refer to it as a mini-continent. The isles share an eternal spring climate but they differ dramatically amongst each other. Exploring the Canaries you can move from sub-tropical vegetation to volcanic semi-deserts, from verdant cliffs and gorges to sand dunes by the sea shore.


	Maspalomas dunes in Las Palmas, Gran Canaria

Visiting the Canary Islands takes you into a magical world filled with the miracle of nature. A year-round temperature of 22 degrees allows you to enjoy a splendid tourist infrastructure. Hotels, tourist complexes, water parks, and facilities for water sports dot its 1,500 kilometers of coastline, offering a wide range of leisure options. The seven islands differ greatly in landscape and environment, but are alike in the quality of their beaches - many of which have been awarded an EU blue flag - and a climate which gives no ground to bad weather. Long sandy beaches, coves, and cliffs offer visitors all they will need to enjoy a few days beside the Atlantic.

Fuerteventura has the largest beaches in the archipelago. Turquoise waters caress kilometers of white sand beaches, the majority of which are untouched and deserted. For its part, Lanzarote is a land of chromatic contrasts. Coves set between cliffs offer the chance to bathe nude, and its black sands are truly unique. A visit to Gran Canaria should not be missed. Enjoy such beautiful spots as the Maspalomas Dunes, the fishing port of Mogán and the Andén Verde Cliffs.


	Fuencaliente (La Palma)

The south of Tenerife offers extensive sand beaches with calm waters, suitable for the whole family. Places such as Las Américas, Los Cristianos, Los Gigantes, and the Costa del Silencio are known internationally for their warm temperatures and friendly people.

The sheer cliffs and dark beaches of El Hierro, La Palma, and La Gomera, meanwhile, open up to the sea. Fishing ports and small coves, often with natural pools, are their distinguishing features.

Gran Canaria Nature's generosity has given the Canary archipelago not only a subtropical climate and a volcanic landscape, but also excellent conditions for water sports. In this respect, the Canary coasts offer the latest in water sports facilities and marinas for sailing, water-skiing, kayaking, and surfing. But it is windsurfing which attracts one of the largest groups of enthusiasts to the island year-round. Continuous trade winds and mild island temperatures make this an unbeatable spot for lovers of the sport.


	La Orotava - Tenerife

One wonders to this day when and how the ancients learnt about this little paradise which Herodotus called the Garden of Hesperides, Homer the Elysian Fields and Pliny the Fortunate isles. Modern contact with the Canaries began to develop in the Middle Ages as sailors from peninsular Spain arrived to plunder the isles of their orchids, which were used to make dye, and of their inhabitants, who were enslaved. Conquest in earnest only began with the Norman adventurer Jean de Bethencourt who, in 1402, claimed Lanzarote on behalf of his feudal lord. Henry III of Castile. In 1483, during the region of the Catholic Monarchs, Pedro de Vera established a base in Gran Canaria and in 1496 Alonso Fenández de Lugo won control of Tenerife. From then on colonization started in earnest.

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