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Heredad de Aguas de Arucas y Firgas(Water Rights Association)

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Arehucas Rum Distillery

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Arucas Mountain (panoramic views)

“La Cerera” Archaeological Site

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Entrance to the factory

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Park entrance

This is one of the town´s oldest and most central venues. Just by looking around the square, you can see how the buildings in the old centre of Arucas have evolved, with buildings dating from the 17th, 18th, 19th y 20th centuries. This architectural complex attains its greatest splendor with the principal façade of St John Church.

Iglesia de San Juan Bautista

Plaza de San Juan

It was built entirely by hand without the use of technology or mechanical devices of any kind and it is loyal testimony both of the skills of its builders and the determination of the local inhabitants, who witnessed the construction of their place of worship.

The church started being built on March 19, 1909, on St Joseph´s Day, and was consecrated in 1917. Building continued, however, for nearly

another seventy years. The bell tower started being built in the south-eastern corner in 1962, and it was completed in 1977. A neogothic style was chosen, since it allowed for great orna-mental displays on the stone to be engraved by local stone quarry workers, the traditional local trade. The proud presence of its four towers gives the church a sensation of grandeur, cha-racteristic of buildings of the style, leading it to be popularly known as Arucas Cathedral.

The interior of St John Church is close and mysterious, thanks to the slender elegance of its architectural lines and the light effects caused by the stained glass windows, which were installed between 1916 and 1928 by the French firm Maumejean et Frères.

The church houses an outstanding reclining nude image of Christ, by local sculptor Mano-lo Ramos (1898-1971). Made in wood around 1940, it is renowned for the treatment of the nude and the expressive power of the treat-ment of the nude and the expressive power of the figure´s head, in which the author reveals his knowledge of the human anatomy.

Every day 9:00 - 12:30 h. 16:30 - 18:00 h.

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Now approach the iron gate leading to the Municipal Park and Municipal Museum. Municipal Museum of Arucas is situated in the former house of el Mayorazgo (estate involving the right of primogeni-ture). The Council acquired the building and its rear garden around 1976. In the same year, some parts of the house were opened to the public and transformed into exhibition halls with permanent ex-hibits of the work of Santiago Santana, Manolo Ramos, Guillermo Sureda and Abraham Cárdenes.

The Municipal Park occupies a surface area of around 2.5 acres with several paved and tree-lined areas. It contains an enormous variety of trees and plants of great ornamental interest. Not in vain

Arucas is also known as the “Town of the flowers”.

From the avenue at the top of the Park, you can see several large 20th century buildings. If you stand by the water dis-tribution box at the end of the Park, you can contemplate the majestic building housing La Heredad de Aguas de Aru-cas y Firgas (Arucas and Firgas Water Rights Association), which dates from 1912 houses the right to use water for irrigation.

Museum hours: Monday to Friday 10:00 - 18:00 h.; Saturday 10:00 - 13:00 h.

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This street is lined with several 19th cen-tury buildings, such as the Tourist Infor-mation Office. A little further on is Fun-dación Canaria MAPFRE Guanarteme, which was rebuilt in 1892 in an eclectic style, and houses several exhibition halls and a year-long cultural agenda.

León y CastilloPedestrian Street

It is one of several local quarries with origins dating from the 16th century. The present owners´ family bought the quarry towards the end of the 50's, continuing a family tradition that can be dated back to more than 250 years. After many years exploiting the magnificent quarry of trachyphonolitic stone, the famous blue stone of Arucas, it was adapted to work with new technologies in 1999. Nowadays, inside the stone quarry, there is a faithful recreation of the characteris-tic elements of a stone quarry. The way in which stone was handled then con-trast with the new advanced techniques currently employed in this quarry.

Monday to Friday 9:00 - 19:00 h.

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This interesting complex is around 500 yards far from the town centre, on the road from Arucas to Bañaderos. It houses a small palace built in 1880 by the first Marquis of Arucas, Don Ramón Madam y Uriondo.

This garden, a local and international botanical jewel, owes its name to its creator´s enthusiasm, the Marquis, for bringing different species back from his frequent journeys. It is currently one of the most complete collections of tropical and sub-tropical flora which, thanks to the microclimate in the historical town of Arucas, is an ideal habitat for the develop-ment of the over 2.500 species on show.

Monday to Friday 9:00 - 13:00 h.; 14:00 - 18:00 h.

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What is particular about this natural obser-vatory is that it was installed inside what was the crater of the Arucas Mountain volcano. This volcanic cone, approximately 300.000 years old, was crowned by a circu-lar crater, not very deep, which was filled in the 50's to build this beautiful vantage point and a restaurant. It affords an excellent view including magnificent panoramic per-spectives of the entire town and the north of Gran Canaria. Several vantage points in the direction or the four cardinal points af-ford us a view of the banana plantations in all their magnitude, together with the town itself and its most important districts.

Continue to Plaza de la Constitución, which houses two important municipal buildings, the Town Council (1875) and the former Municipal Market (1882), both designed in an eclectic style. It is worth mentioning the mortar impact close to the Town Council´s front door during the Span-ish Civil War.

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The Municipa-lity of Arucas

is situated on the north coast of Gran Canaria, covering an area of approximately 12.7 square miles, stretching from the coast up to the foothills at over 1.800 feet above sea level. This is an area that has been heavily transformed by human activity, where more or less scattered built-up areas, farmland and associated infrastructures, tanks, irrigation ditches, terraces, largely define the landscape that can be seen in the municipality.

The modern town as the origin of the old centre arose during the second half of the 19th and the early 20th cen-tury. Most of the

buildings that you will be discovering date from this period. The new image of this ar-chitecture is a reflection of the economic and social bourgeois power and the aes-thetic trends of the time. These magnifi-cent buildings and the priceless work of local quarry workers were awarded when the area was declared a Historic and Artistic Complex in 1976.

A walk through theHistoric Town

Centre of Arucas

Jardín de la Marquesa(The Marchioness'Garden)

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Founded in 1973 to house the Public Library, it is a traditional 17th century Canary Island house. On the façade, you can appreciate the stone surround of the main door and the panel divided in the centre by the town coat of arms. The main door is reminiscent of several hous-es in the Vegueta borough, in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. It was refurbished in 1973 by local artist Santiago Santana. Climb the steps to the inner courtyard, a typical part of traditional Canary Islands homes, with the different rooms around it. You can now contemplate the marve-lous Dragon tree, which is around 150 years old, and its stone-floored corridor with wooden columns.

Monday to Friday 9:00 - 13:00 h. and 16:00 - 21:00 h.; Saturday 9:00 - 13:00 h.

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Casa de la Cultura(Public Library)

The old rum factory was founded by Don Alfonso Gourié Álvarez on August 9, 1884. It is now possible to make a tour guide to the facilities, free of charge. The Factory now has one of the most important rum cellars in Europe, with 6.000 American oak casks storing exquisite Arehucas liqueurs. The visit includes the cellar and the bottling lines in operation, capable of filling 12,000 and 20.000 bottles per hour, respectively. The tasting room is the perfect end to a visit to these facilities, where all the products made by Destilerías Arehucas, S.A. can be tasted and purchased.

Upon leaving the factory, stop and take alook at the small Saint Peter Chapel.

Monday to Friday 9:00 - 14:00 h.; Summer time 9:00 - 13:00 h.

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Museo “La Cantera”(Stone Quarry Museum)

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