Canary Islands History
History of the Canary Islands Spain
Canary Islands History
The Canary Islands have a wealth of History and to show this there are many Museums, Castles, Monuments and Art Centres around the Canary Islands. They take you through the heritage, history and amazing culture of the Canary Islands.
There is a lot of 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.
The invasion of the Canary island's was fiercely resisted by the natives, it happened regularly during fourteenth century. It took Europe almost 1000 years after the Roman Empire fell to remember about the Canaries, until a Mediterranean ship rediscovered it. From then on Portuguese, Italians and Catalan sent their ships to the island to bring back slaves and fur to their countries.
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.
In 1927 the division of the archipelago into two separate provinces; the Westerly Islands of Tenerife, La Palma, Gomera and Hierro from the province of Santa Cruz de Tenerife (chief town Santa Cruz) and the Eastern Islands of Gran Canaria, Fuerteventura and Lanzarote from the province of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (chief town Las Palmas), came about. This is all led from Cuba winning their freedom from Spain in 1898.
Go through a link below to get detailed information on the History of some of the main tourist islands within the Archipelago of the Canaries.
Tenerife has a lot of historical background, there are monuments and museums around the island portraying and describing this for you to visit and see. Tenerife along with the rest of the Canary islands is the son of Pluton. The oldest mountain ranges in Tenerife rose from the Atlantic ocean a lot later than the its neighbouring eastern islands. Where as there volcanic development was over twenty million years ago, Tenerife's was between twelve and eight million years ago.
Gran Canaria has a lot of historical background, there are monuments and museums around the island portraying and describing this for you to visit and see. Mundo Aborigen is a great place to learn all about Gran Canaria's history, it has been declared a 'Place of Cultural, Social and Historical Interest' by the local government. You will find it located overlooking the Barranco de Fataga, which is the biggest and most dramatic gorge on the island, The Mundo Aborigen, which means Aborigines' world, is a reconstruction of an ancient Canary village devoted entirely to the Guanche way of life. Giving its visitors a genuine insight to pre-Hispanic culture! A small archaeological museum has also been created on the site too. Mundo Aborigen is open all year round, everyday from 9am till 6pm. It is located from the road from Playa del Inglés to Fataga – San Bartolomé de Tirajana.
Fuerteventura along with the rest of the Canary islands is the son of Pluton. It is the second largest island of the archipelago developed roughly the same time as the island of Lanzarote, which was about sixteen to twenty million years ago. Fuerteventura present appearance has been the work of millions of years of erosion - this is half a desert which is scattered with rocks that spreads between the mountains, some say it shape is that like a mullet leg or Marge Simpsons hair doo!
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Canary Islands History
History of the Canary Islands Spain