The History of Gran Canaria

The History of Gran Canaria

Gran Canaria has a lot of historical background, there are monuments and museums around the island they are a great place to learn all about Gran Canaria's history. Gran Canaria along with the rest of the Canary islands is the son of Pluton (Pluton, being the brother of Zeuss). What we now today as Gran Canaria, was originally known as Tamaran. There is a lot of The history of Gran Canaria

myth to what people believe of the early history of the Canary island's, some believe that they are the lost islands of Atlantis and other's believe that they are known as the ‘Fortunate Islands’ that were clinging to the edge of the world where people had no sorrows.
Gran Canaria is believe to be colonized from 500 BC although the only inhabitants that confirmed are the Guanches - the natives of the island - these are believed to have came from North Africa and were descendants from the Berber people.

Finally during the beginning of the fifteenth century the conquest began, With the Spanish invasion ending with the Guanches either killed or committing suicide rather than surrender to the Spanish those who did survive were forced into being slaves and to convert to Christianity and eventually died out. The invasion of Gran Canaria by the Crown of Castile was the work of Pedro de Vera, in 1483, who completed the conquest that was started earlier by Juan Rejón. It took place over two phases to complete the conquest, starting firstly with the landing, following that the construction of Real de Las Palmas at the mouth of the Guiniguada river, secondly, the Vera's military campaign, that ended with the defeat of the gran canaria history

aboriginal people of Gáldar, as well as the campaign for the reconciliation of the southern slopes of the island.

In the mid-nineteenth century the free port system that was established as a special economic management system designed to favour trading relations in the Canary Islands. The new regime, which was based on tax exemptions and facilities for free trade acted as a major trading attraction. The number of British ships and shipping companies calling in at the Island soon multiplied. Due to the shipping traffic, the tourism industry was born in Gran Canaria. Over the years, tourism would eventually become the main source of income for the island, which had became one of the main tourist destinations in the world then. During the second half of the 19th century, Gran Canaria started gaining popularity in European circles as a place of rest for tourists and the unwell. Which led soon to shipping companies taking advantage of the opportunity and equipping their vessels with cabins so they could transport passengers.

The first hotels built on the island was from the initiative of these same companies, one of which was the hotel of Santa Catalina, built in 1890 in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, this still remains open and is the only hotel dating from the early beginnings of tourism that still does. There has been an airport at Gran Canaria since the 1930’s

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