Mesa y López Commercial Zone

Around Mesa y López Avenue, department stores and stores, the Central Market and leisure and restaurant establishments give life to the most important commercial area, together with Triana, of the city. The establishments are distributed along a large area that extends from the Naval Base, very close to the beach of Las Alcaravaneras, to the Plaza de América, already in the neighborhood of Guanarteme.

It has three pedestrian areas: the Mesa y López boulevards, eminently commercial and hosting numerous events; the Plaza de España, with terraces that are always crowded; and Ruiz de Alda Street, a leisure and restaurant area.

A few steps from the Mesa y López boulevards is the Santa María del Pino church (known as the Church of El Pino), built in 1927 among the dunes and Arenales that occupied this part of the city until the middle of the 20th century, when urban development began and gave rise to this second nerve center of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.