Telde

Municipality

Ayuntamiento de Telde
Plaza de San Juan 1,  35200 Telde
Tel. 928 13 90 50

Other localities in the Municipality

Cazadores; El Calero; Gando; El Goro; La Breña; Jinámar; La Garita; La Majadilla; La Higuera Canaria; Las Huesas; La Pardilla; Lomo Magullo; Ojos de Garza; San Antonio; San Gregorio; Casas Nuevas; San Juan; San Francisco; Valle de Los Nueve; Valle de San Roque; San José de Las Longueras.

Municipality Information

Area: 100.20 km²
Population: 96.547
Height of the City: 130 MSL.
Highest point: 1.600 MSL.
Distance to Las Palmas: 9,5 km.

Tourist Information

Oficina de Turismo
Calle León y Castillo 2,  35200 Telde
Tel. 928 68 13 36

Aeropuerto de Gando
(Terminal Internacional)
35230 Telde
Tel. 928 57 40 58 / 928 57 40 44

Sightseeing

Map Telde

Cooperativa de Taxis
Tel. 902 19 20 19 / 928 15 47 77

Radio Taxi Telde
Cánovas del Castillo s/n
Tel. 928 70 38 00

Radio Taxi de San Juan
Tel. 928 68 87 13 / 928 69 49 08

See different routes:  Salcai/Utinsa Global.

Airport

The airport of Gran Canaria is placed 18 km. South East of Las Palmas. About 20 min. drive.
See under Airport

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Las Palmas Airport
Distance to Las Palmas: 18 km

Las Palmas Airport in Gando, is situated about the middle of the East coast, and is built in 1993 about 20 minutes driving range from Las Palmas, 30 minutes from Playa del Ingles and about  45 minutes from Puerto Rico.
Direct planes from Madrid takes a little more than 2 hours. All the Canary Islands has an airport for national and international flights, except La Gomera who only has to national flights.

See more about air companies here.

Teatro Casa de la Cultura de Telde
Poeta Pablo Neruda 1,  35220 Telde
Tel. 928 69 14 68 / 928 13 92 49
Fax. 928 69 08 26

Biblioteca Pública Municipal de Telde
Licenciado Calderín 22,  35200  Telde
Tel. 928 69 02 22

Open: Monday - Friday  09.00 - 21.00

Digital Library

Hipermercado Alcampo
Autovía GC-1 Km 8,  35212 Telde
Tel. 928 13 40 00
Opening hours: 09.00 - 22.00

Big warehouse, where you can buy to reasonable prices
69 cash desks tells a little about how big it is.

Parroquia de San Juan Bautista
Plaza de San Juan
35200 Telde
Tel. 928 68 09 06 / 928 69 02 85

An institution established in 1954 by the council of Gran Canaria, situated in the house in which two distinguished Gran Canaria personalities were born, namely Fernando León y Castillo, the first marquis of Muni, and his brother, Juan, the engineer who designed the port named Puerto de la Luz in Las Palmas, and who was a faithful exponent of Mudejar architecture in the Canaries. Both men were faithful exponents of the political class of the Bourbon Restoration.

The museum houses a research centre, with a library that is specialised in contemporary history. This centre organises courses, seminars and conferences, while also awarding scholarships and a research prize.

Museo Palacio Spínola
The house of the Spínola family is one of the most important surviving buildings in the town owing both to its features and to its size. It was built by Don José Feo Peraza between 1730 and 1780, though his son Don José Feo de Armas was the most important person to live in this mansion. The surname Spínola became associated with the mansion for the first time in its history in 1895, after being linked to the Feo family for over 150 years.

The house-museum León y Castillo is one of the best examples of large ancestral houses in Canarias. Inside the house,  there are numerous personal objects, the library and paintings by Gusach, Raimundo Madrazo and José Arencibia Gil. Other places of interest are the tower of Gando, of the 18th century, at present aeronautical museum, the ancestral houses of the quarter of San Juan, with their carving works of  Arucas and wooden balconies coloured in green, the house of Ponce de León and the so called basilica menor.

Telde possesses the oldest historical centre in the whole canary archipelago. The natural environment of Telde is of great beauty. Most interesting is the Special Natural Reservation of Los Marteles, with places of great importance like el barranco de los Cernícalos or el barranco de las Goteras, in the protected landscape of Tafira.

Opening hours:
Monday - Friday 08.00 - 20.00
Saturday - Sunday 10.00 - 13.00

Admission: Free

Where the Prehispanic settlements of Tara and Cendra are now located, the first inhabitants of Telde lived on the northern slope of the cliff.

In reality, it's a group of very primitive buildings formed from cave-dwellings, dug out of the rock, although some of these caves were formed by volcanic eruptions.

One of the main characteristics of these two enclaves is, that the cave-dwellings were still used until quite recently, both as homes and as places for keeping cattle.

Tara was the location of the discovery of the so-called Idolo de Tara (Tara Idol), an anthropomorphosis statue, considered the goddess of fertility, which can be seen in the Museo Canario.

Located near the airport and the city of Telde at the peak of the so-called Bermeja mountain, this archaeological site strongly reflects the close relationship, between the Prehispanic Canary Islanders and their religious beliefs.

It's formed by a room with four large doors, hence the name (cuatro puertas meaning "four doors"), all dug out of volcanic rock. There are many signs here telling you about the place and the Guanches both in English and Spanish, and with illustrations to give additional information.

However, above them is a proper altar directly related to solar rites.

Behind, the spectacular caves of Los Papeles and Las Solumnas, complete the site and give you an unbeatable view of the Roque de Gando and the southeast of Gran Canaria.

Longitude: 28º 00' N  -  Latitude: 15º 22,4' W

Puerto Deportivo Taliarte
35200 Telde
Tel. 928 37 21 44

Telde has one of the biggest collections on the Island of old monuments and buildings from the colonial times, and furthermore the Streets covered with paving stones, which makes it a pleasure walking here.

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