Canaria in a sentence

Archaeologists on Spain’s Gran Canaria island are puzzled: who were the six young men whose skeletons were found face-down, hands tied and covered with stones in a cliff-side cave?

A serial fraudster who bought a luxury Gran Canaria penthouse and a sports car by claiming fraudulent insurance claims must pay back over £200,000.

Barrhead Travel’s top 10 destinations its customers travelled to this April included Orlando, Tenerife, Alicante, Dubai, Antalya, Lanzarote, Cruising from Southampton, Mallorca, Paris and Gran Canaria.

Fuerteventura, often described as the "Quiet Island" of the Canaries, is making waves in the tourism industry as it competes for attention against its more famous neighbours – Tenerife, Lanzarote, and Gran Canaria.

She added in the GoFundMe blurb: "He was flown over to Gran Canaria and was told he may not make the flight.

Lucha Canaria is played on a circular sandy pitch, and players must knock their opponent to the ground through grabs, blocks, or lifts.

Protests in the Canary Islands of La Gomera and El Hierro scheduled for Saturday mean demonstrations will take place across the Atlantic Ocean archipelago alongside those already announced in Tenerife, Gran Canaria, Lanzarote, Fuerteventura and La Palma.

Rochdale-born Michael Holt, 54, of Cedarway, Heswall, embarked from Gran Canaria on January 27 this year with the goal of reaching Barbados in the Caribbean.

Rowley and Rojas are showing as guests of Gran Canaria Swim Week by Moda Cálida and do not have to pay to show there.

Royal Caribbean said the ship had to make a call at Las Palmas, Gran Canaria, following the incident due to injuries sustained by one of the passengers who needed medical care.

The crew sailed on the Can Do Too from Gran Canaria to Saint Lucia.

The crime drama, exploring family and success, is shooting in Gomera and Gran Canaria, the Canary Islands, which offers 45%-50% tax breaks.

The grim discovery was made by a housekeeper at the Colina Mar apartment-hotel complex in the Puerto Rico resort area in the southern part of Gran Canaria.

All migrants have been relocated to makeshift military facilities with better infrastructure and hotels across Gran Canaria and other islands, Anselmo Pestana, the Spanish government delegate in the archipelago, told reporters on Monday.

And Craig Cowgill, from Bury, who is due to fly to Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands on Thursday, said he was still hoping Jet2 would refund him.

Flights from Gran Canaria, Lanzarote, La Palma, and Tenerife North and South Airports have been grounded for the foreseeable future due to the weather conditions.

Graeme Wharton, of Sunderland, said his family have been stuck at Gran Canaria airport with "zero information" from tour operator TUI.

Mr Walters set off on his 3,000-mile challenge on January 25 from Gran Canaria in a row boat he built in his front garden 22 years ago.

The high winds generated by the sandstorm, locally known as ‘calima’, have also hampered efforts to tackle wildfires in Tasarte, Gran Canaria after temperatures soared to 30C and above in recent days.

The strong winds also fueled the spread of wildfires on the islands of Tenerife and Gran Canaria, with one blaze consuming a banana plantation on La Palma.