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| | Las Palmas - Las Palmas Gran Canaria Canary Islands - Spain |
 | | Las Palmas de Gran Canaria is the Capital of Gran Canaria, located in the north west of the island! |
 | | Las Palmas was founded in 1478, The City boasts an important historical and cultural heritage, of which much of this can be found in the district of Vegueta, which is the oldest quarter of the town, this was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1990. |
 | | It is a Canary Village, designed and built in the 1930s by the brothers Néstor and Miguel Fernandez de la Torre to interest tourists in island culture, it is a a complex of several traditionally built island houses with the famous wooden carved balconies forming a typical Canary village with gates, turrets and an atrium. |
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