Triana

Triana, declared a Historic Site and Asset of Cultural Interest in 1993, is one of the historic neighborhoods of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria and one of the most traditional and important open commercial areas, along with Mesa y López. It is also an area of leisure and restoration: it concentrates in its streets, many of them pedestrian, a great variety of premises. Two of the city’s main stages are located here: the Pérez Galdós Theater and the Cuyás Theater.

Almost at the edge of the Guiniguada ravine -which separates Triana from Vegueta, nowadays buried under the road that connects the capital with the center of the island- we find some of its most emblematic squares: Hurtado de Mendoza and Cairasco, presided over by the Gabinete Literario (Literary Cabinet). This historic building is an example of modernist architecture that is present in different parts of the neighborhood, especially in the main street of Triana -its main artery and shopping epicenter-, in its surrounding streets and in the park of San Telmo.