An island the size of Surrey, Gran Canaria is packed with a continent’s worth of climates, attractions and activities - Mlenny/E+ With a gilt-edged southern coast, a capital city sculpted by conquests ...

TEJEDA, Spain (Reuters) - A rapidly-spreading wildfire that broke out at the centre of the Spanish island of Gran Canaria on Tuesday forced the authorities to remove several hundred villagers from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It was one of those vacations where I couldn't stop myself from saying "wow," over and over again. Gran Canaria feels like a ...

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The first thing that struck me as I arrived in Gran Canaria was the spinning white blades that dotted the horizon. I later learnt that these wind turbines generate 20 per cent of the island’s energy, ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Travel news every morning. Reputations, once forged, are often hard to shake off. For better or worse, Gran Canaria is mainly known as a ...

Gran Canaria, a popular holiday hotspot in the Canary Islands, has been ravaged by catastrophic flooding, which has seen vehicles washed into the ocean. Holidaymakers have received direct warnings to ...

Researchers have defined the age, location, size and geochemistry of the volcanoes of Gran Canaria during the Holocene, 11,000 years ago, in order to draw up a map of volcanic hazards for the island.

A trail near the village of Tejeda winds into a wild landscape of volcanic monoliths. The nearly three-mile route "has grassy spots, and there's also gravel and a bit of road," says Katrin Schneider ...

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