Las Canteras – The Famous Beach Of Las Palmas
October 3rd, 2009 | 
Author: Las Canteras – The Famous Beach Of Las Palmas
The vibrant city of Las Palmas enjoys the best climate in the world according to a study carried out by the Syracuse University USA. Imagine combining this climate with a huge beach in the middle of the city This is basically what the Las Canteras beach is about.
The Las Canteras beach in the middle of Las Palmas
The beach is more than 2 kilometers long and 50 meters wide on average. The presence of an “arrow” or natural breakwater formed by volcanic rock at one end of the bay increases the quantity of golden sand of this beach.
By the end of the beach you’ll find the impressive “Auditorio Alfredo Krauss” home of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Las Palmas named after Las Palmas born Alfredo Krauss one the legendary tenors of the 20th century.
The huge shopping center of Las Arenas is situated next to the concert hall. In there you’ll find all the shopping you need: cafs restuarants Zara Cortefiel Mango multiscreen cinema as well as Carrefour an enormous super market.
A fantastic promenade along the beach
The Canteras Promenade starts at Las Arenas/the Concert Hall and reaches all the way down to La Isleta passing the famous park of Santa Catalina a few blocks from the promenade. Along this walk carfree of course you’ll find not only the beautiful beach but also all kinds of bars restaurants hostals luxury hotels icecream shops.
Las Canteras attracts all kind of people
One of the nice things with Las Canteras promenade is the diverse mix of people passing by. Since we’re talking about a beach in the middle of a city inhabited by 390.000 persons you’ll find all types of people at Canteras from local office staff taking a lunch walk to north European tourists enjoying the beach.
The Las Canteras beach is a touristic landmark; this is where it all began in the early 60′s. Nevertheless nowadays foreign tourism is much less frequent than 30 years ago since the south of Gran Canaria Playa del Ingls Puerto Rico has taken over.
Las Canteras the perfect stay in Gran Canaria
Staying in a hotel in Las Palmas is definitely an alternative to Playa del Ingls and the rest of the resorts of the south. You get the perfect mix of beach shoppping culture and food there are many many good restaurants in Las Palmas. And if it is very cloudy in Las Palmas one day just take the bus to Maspalomas in the south.
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